Eliza Cook

“ THERE'S a star in the West that shall never go down
Till the records of Valour decay ;
We must worship its light, though it is not our own,
For liberty burst in its ray.
Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard
By a freeman and thrill not his breast ?
Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word,
As the Bethlehem Star of the West ? ”