With his lean, ragged levies undismayed he crouched among the giant walls.  A show to the distainful heaven-blinded foe.  Unlauded, unsupported, disobeyed, thwarted, maligned, conspired against, betrayed–yet nothing could unheart him.  Wouldst thou know his secret?  There, in that thicket, on the snow Washington knelt before his God and prayed.

CANON R.G. Sutherland

Copied from the George Washington monument at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California.

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