If George Washington Should Rise From the Dead
If George Washington Should Rise from the Dead
By Elton Camp
If George Washington should come to life again,
I rather wonder if he’d scream and his head spin
From what historians say, it would certainly seem
The country he founded strayed far from his dream
Entangelments with foreign nations he warned about
He’d have to be astonished at how that one turned out
The Constitution with its words so simple and clear
Has been interpreted into something else he’d fear
And his honored head he would most surely shake
And think a public debt so huge has to be a mistake
That States marriage between two men would endorse
Would be so far beyond his wildest dreams of course
But there might be much that George would think great
But for it to come in a later poem, that idea please wait
Or maybe some writer would like to pick up that theme
And tell us how developments fulfilled George’s dream
Copyright © Elton Camp | Year Posted 2011
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