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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472505" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our Oldest Friend</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I GIVE you the health of the oldest friend<br>That, short of eternity, earth can lend,--<br>A friend so faithful and tried and true<br>That nothing can wean him from me and you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When first we screeched in the sudden blaze<br>Of the daylight's blinding and blasting rays,<br>And gulped at the gaseous, groggy air,<br>This old, old friend stood waiting there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when, with a kind of mortal strife,<br>We had gasped and choked into breathing life,<br>He watched by the cradle, day and night,<br>And held our hands till we stood upright.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From gristle and pulp our frames have grown<br>To stringy muscle and solid bone;<br>While we were changing, he altered not;<br>We might forget, but he never forgot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He came with us to the college class,--<br>Little cared he for the steward's pass!<br>All the rest must pay their fee,<br>Put the grim old dead-head entered free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He stayed with us while we counted o'er<br>Four times each of the seasons four;<br>And with every season, from year to year,<br>The dear name Classmate he made more dear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He never leaves us,--he never will,<br>Till our hands are cold and our hearts are still;<br>On birthdays, and Christmas, and New-Year's too,<br>He always remembers both me and you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every year this faithful friend<br>His little present is sure to send;<br>Every year, wheresoe'er we be,<br>He wants a keepsake from you and me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How he loves us! he pats our heads,<br>And, lo! they are gleaming with silver threads;<br>And he 's always begging one lock of hair,<br>Till our shining crowns have nothing to wear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length he will tell us, one by one,<br>'My child, your labor on earth is done;<br>And now you must journey afar to see<br>My elder brother,--Eternity!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so, when long, long years have passed,<br>Some dear old fellow will be the last,--<br>Never a boy alive but he<br>Of all our goodly company!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he lies down, but not till then,<br>Our kind Class-Angel will drop the pen<br>That writes in the day-book kept above<br>Our lifelong record of faith and love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So here's a health in homely rhyme<br>To our oldest classmate, Father Time!<br>May our last survivor live to be<br>As bald and as wise and as tough as he!</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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That, short of eternity, earth can lend,--
A friend so faithful and tried and true
That nothing can wean him from me and you.

When first we screeched in the sudden blaze
Of the daylight's blinding and bl..."></div>
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