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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Birthday Of Daniel Webster</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">JANUARY 18, 1856</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN life hath run its largest round<br>Of toil and triumph, joy and woe,<br>How brief a storied page is found<br>To compass all its outward show!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world-tried sailor tires and droops;<br>His flag is rent, his keel forgot;<br>His farthest voyages seem but loops<br>That float from life's entangled knot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when within the narrow space<br>Some larger soul hath lived and wrought,<br>Whose sight was open to embrace<br>The boundless realms of deed and thought,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When, stricken by the freezing blast,<br>A nation's living pillars fall,<br>How rich the storied page, how vast,<br>A word, a whisper, can recall!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No medal lifts its fretted face,<br>Nor speaking marble cheats your eye,<br>Yet, while these pictured lines I trace,<br>A living image passes by:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A roof beneath the mountain pines;<br>The cloisters of a hill-girt plain;<br>The front of life's embattled lines;<br>A mound beside the heaving main.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are the scenes: a boy appears;<br>Set life's round dial in the sun,<br>Count the swift arc of seventy years,<br>His frame is dust; his task is done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet pause upon the noontide hour,<br>Ere the declining sun has laid<br>His bleaching rays on manhood's power,<br>And look upon the mighty shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No gloom that stately shape can hide,<br>No change uncrown its brow; behold I<br>Dark, calm, large-fronted, lightning-eyed,<br>Earth has no double from its mould.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ere from the fields by valor won<br>The battle-smoke had rolled away,<br>And bared the blood-red setting sun,<br>His eyes were opened on the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His land was but a shelving strip<br>Black with the strife that made it free<br>He lived to see its banners dip<br>Their fringes in the Western sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boundless prairies learned his name,<br>His words the mountain echoes knew,<br>The Northern breezes swept his fame<br>From icy lake to warm bayou.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In toil he lived; in peace he died;<br>When life's full cycle was complete,<br>Put off his robes of power and pride,<br>And laid them at his Master's feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His rest is by the storm-swept waves<br>Whom life's wild tempests roughly trie<br>Whose heart was like the streaming eaves<br>Of ocean, throbbing at his side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death's cold white hand is like the snow<br>Laid softly on the furrowed hill,<br>It hides the broken seams below,<br>And leaves the summit brighter still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In vain the envious tongue upbraids;<br>His name a nation's heart shall keep<br>Till morning's latest sunlight fades<br>On the blue tablet of the deep.</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>
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WHEN life hath run its largest round
Of toil and triumph, joy and woe,
How brief a storied page is found
To compass all its outward show!

The world-tried sailor tires and droops;
His flag is rent, his keel forgot;
His farthest v..."></div>
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