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A poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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The Old Tune |
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Title: The Old Tune Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Titles by Holmes] THIRTY-SIXTH VARIATION 1886 THIS shred of song you bid me bring Too swift the wings of envious Time A word, a sigh, and lo, how plain One language years alone can teach That tongue is ours. How few the words This freezing month of ice and snow So let us meet as eve draws nigh, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |