If George Washington Should Rise from the Dead

What would he think?

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

 

Entanglements 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