<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472559" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gray Chief</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FOR THE MEETING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS<br>MEDICAL SOCIETY, 1859</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T is sweet to fight our battles o'er,<br>And crown with honest praise<br>The gray old chief, who strikes no more<br>The blow of better days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the true and trusted sage<br>With willing hearts we bend,<br>When years have touched with hallowing age<br>Our Master, Guide, and Friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all his manhood's labor past,<br>For love and faith long tried,<br>His age is honored to the last,<br>Though strength and will have died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when, untamed by toil and strife,<br>Full in our front he stands,<br>The torch of light, the shield of life,<br>Still lifted in his hands,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No temple, though its walls resound<br>With bursts of ringing cheers,<br>Can hold the honors that surround<br>His manhood's twice-told years!</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=472559" data-title="The Gray Chief de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="FOR THE MEETING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY, 1859 'T is sweet to fight our battles o'er, And crown with honest praise The gray old chief, who strikes no more The blow of better days. Before the true and trusted sage With willing hearts ..."></div> </div> </div>

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