<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tribute To Oliver Wendell Holmes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou metamorphic god!<br>Who mak'st the straight Olympus thy abode,<br>Hermes to subtle laughter moving,<br>Apollo with serener loving,<br>Thou demi-god also!<br>Who dost all the powers of healing know;<br>Thou hero who dost wield<br>The golden sword and shield,--<br>Shield of a comprehensive mind,<br>And sword to wound the foes of human kind;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou man of noble mould!<br>Whose metal grows not cold<br>Beneath the hammer of the hurrying years;<br>A fiery breath doth blow<br>Across its fervid glow,<br>And still its resonance delights our ears;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Loved of thy brilliant mates,<br>Relinquished to the fates,<br>Whose spirit music used to chime with thine,<br>Transfigured in our sight,<br>Not quenched in death's dark night,<br>They hold thee in companionship divine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O autocratic muse!<br>Soul-rainbow of all hues,<br>Packed full of service are thy bygone years;<br>Thy winged steed doth fly<br>Across the starry sky,<br>Bearing the lowly burthens of thy tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I try this little leap,<br>Wishing that from the deep,<br>I might some pearl of song adventurous bring.<br>Despairing, here I stop,<br>And my poor offering drop,--<br>Why stammer I when thou art here to sing?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Julia+Ward+Howe">Julia Ward Howe</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427877" data-title="Tribute To Oliver Wendell Holmes de Julia Ward Howe" data-description="Thou metamorphic god! Who mak'st the straight Olympus thy abode, Hermes to subtle laughter moving, Apollo with serener loving, Thou demi-god also! Who dost all the powers of healing know; Thou hero who dost wield The golden sword and shield,-- Shi..."></div> </div> </div>

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