Washington Elm
Suggestive programs for special day exercises — Washington and Lowell Day
Beneath our consecrated elmA century ago he stoodFamed vaguely for that old fight in the woodWhose red surge sought, but could not overwhelmThe life foredoomed to wield our rough-hewn helm:
*****Firmly erect, he towered above them all,The incarnate discipline that was to freeWith iron curb that armed democracy.