Then honor to the day that gave him birth, For it is also Freedom's natal day.

The couplet links the birth of a particular man—implicitly a liberator or founding figure—to the birth of “Freedom” itself, urging commemoration of his birthday as a civic holiday. “Honor to the day” frames remembrance as a public duty, while “Freedom’s natal day” elevates the individual’s life into a symbolic origin point for political liberty. The rhetoric is celebratory and ceremonial, suited to an ode or commemorative poem (often associated with national anniversaries), and it suggests that personal biography and collective emancipation are inseparable: to honor the person is to reaffirm the ideals of freedom that his life inaugurated or secured.