The Dawning of Music in Kentucky,
or the Pleasures of Harmony
in the Solitudes of Nature
(Opera Prima) (4 May 1820)
Pages 95-96
"Columbia's Plaint"
Written by H. C. Lewis,
and respectfully dedicated to his
Masonic Brethren,
The Music Composed by
by Anthony Philip Heinrich[, 1781-1861],
and calculated to be easi-
ly harmonised for two, or three voices, or simplified "a gusto."

* It is a fact, that Washington, Hamilton, Perry, Burrows, Bush, and indeed a large ma-
jority of the departed Officers of the Army and Navy, and the signers of the Declaration
of the American Independence, were members of the Ancient Order.

Philadelphia, PA: Bacon & Hart
[Bardstown?,] Kentucky: Anthony Philip Heinrich
[Sources: 012/056@Levy; DMK]

1. Our heroes of old are fast dying away, 
With the glory and honours of pa triots tried, 
And the Brave who succeed them but live for aday, 
Then die in the bloom of their laurels and pride. 
	And the Brave who succeed them but live for a day, 
	Then die in the bloom of their laurels and pride.

2. The few of the worthies, of Washington’s days,
Who remain in the land which their bravery blest,
Are indeed but a few!— and each morrow conveys
A statesman or warrior to glory and rest!
	Are indeed but a few!— and each morrow conveys
	A statesman or warrior to glory and rest!


3. Our tears are scarce dry for the warrior slain,
Or the statesman consigned to his halcyon grave,
Ere they flow for some favorite Son of the Main,
A _Bush_, or a _Burrows_, a _Lawrence_, so brave!
	Ere they flow for some favorite Son of the Main,
	A _Bush_, or a _Burrows_, a _Lawrence_, so brave!