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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472557" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fountain Of Youth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">READ AT THE MEETING OF THE HARVARD ALUMNI<br>ASSOCIATION, JUNE 25, 1873</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE fount the Spaniard sought in vain<br>Through all the land of flowers<br>Leaps glittering from the sandy plain<br>Our classic grove embowers;<br>Here youth, unchanging, blooms and smiles,<br>Here dwells eternal spring,<br>And warm from Hope's elysian isles<br>The winds their perfume bring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here every leaf is in the bud,<br>Each singing throat in tune,<br>And bright o'er evening's silver flood<br>Shines the young crescent moon.<br>What wonder Age forgets his staff<br>And lays his glasses down,<br>And gray-haired grandsires look and laugh<br>As when their locks were brown!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With ears grown dull and eyes grown dim<br>They greet the joyous day<br>That calls them to the fountain's brim<br>To wash their years away.<br>What change has clothed the ancient sire<br>In sudden youth? For, to!<br>The Judge, the Doctor, and the Squire<br>Are Jack and Bill and Joe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And be his titles what they will,<br>In spite of manhood's claim<br>The graybeard is a school-boy still<br>And loves his school-boy name;<br>It calms the ruler's stormy breast<br>Whom hurrying care pursues,<br>And brings a sense of peace and rest,<br>Like slippers after shoes.--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what are all the prizes won<br>To youth's enchanted view?<br>And what is all the man has done<br>To what the boy may do?<br>O blessed fount, whose waters flow<br>Alike for sire and son,<br>That melts our winter's frost and snow<br>And makes all ages one!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pledge the sparkling fountain's tide,<br>That flings its golden shower<br>With age to fill and youth to guide,<br>Still fresh in morning flower<br>Flow on with ever-widening stream,<br>In ever-brightening morn,--<br>Our story's pride, our future's dream,<br>The hope of times unborn!</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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THE fount the Spaniard sought in vain
Through all the land of flowers
Leaps glittering from the sandy plain
Our classic grove embowers;
Here youth, unchanging, blooms and smiles..."></div>
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