Oliver Wendell Holmes Anniversary Poems

OUR Father! while our hearts unlearn
The creeds that wrong thy name,
Still let our hallowed altars burn
With Faith's undying flame!
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THREE paths there be where Learning's favored sons,
Trained in the schools which hold her favored ones,
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O'ERSHADOWED by the walls that climb,
Piled up in air by living hands,
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TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crowned
The hundredth circle of his yearly round,
When, as we meet to-day, our fathers met:
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