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At A Birthday Festival To J. R. Lowell |
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Title: At A Birthday Festival To J. R. Lowell Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Titles by Holmes] WE will not speak of years to-night,-- We will not drown in wordy praise We need not waste our school-boy art Enough for him the silent grasp Strength to his hours of manly toil! Sweet smiles to keep forever bright February 22, 1859. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |