Citation - Independent Gazeteer: 1783.02.18

IG.783.024
18 Feb 1783:41 (64)
ON AMERICAN INDEPENDENCY.
When pregnant nature strove relief to gain, 
Her nurse was Washington, her midwife Paine.*
The infant Independence scarce began
To be, e'er he had ripen'd into man;
France his God father; Britain his rod, 
Congress his guardians, and his father God.
* Author of Common Sense.