I THE DAY WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Welcome to the day returning,Dearer still as ages flow,While the torch of Faith is burning,Long as Freedom's altars glow!See the hero whom it gave usSlumbering on a mother's breast;For the arm he stretched to save usBe its morn forever blest!Vain is empire's mad temptation!Not for him an earthly crown!He whose sword has freed a nationStrikes the offered scepter down.See the... more...