<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472338" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Portrait</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thoughtful in youth, but not austere in age;<br>Calm, but not cold, and cheerful though a sage;<br>Too true to flatter and too kind to sneer,<br>And only just when seemingly severe;<br>So gently blending courtesy and art<br>That wisdom’s lips seemed borrowing friendship’s heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Taught by the sorrows that his age had known<br>In others’ trials to forget his own,<br>As hour by hour his lengthened day declined,<br>A sweeter radiance lingered o’er his mind. <br>Cold were the lips that spoke his early praise,<br>And hushed the voices of his morning days,<br>Yet the same accents dwelt on every tongue,<br>And love renewing kept him ever young.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</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=472338" data-title="A Portrait de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="Thoughtful in youth, but not austere in age; Calm, but not cold, and cheerful though a sage; Too true to flatter and too kind to sneer, And only just when seemingly severe; So gently blending courtesy and art That wisdom’s lips seemed borro..."></div> </div> </div>

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