<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472590" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Parting Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FESTIVAL OF THE ALUMNI, 1857</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE noon of summer sheds its ray<br>On Harvard's holy ground;<br>The Matron calls, the sons obey,<br>And gather smiling round.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>CHORUS.<br>Then old and young together stand,<br>The sunshine and the snow,<br>As heart to heart, and hand in hand,<br>We sing before we go!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Her hundred opening doors have swung<br>Through every storied hall<br>The pealing echoes loud have rung,<br>'Thrice welcome one and all!'<br>Then old and young, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We floated through her peaceful bay,<br>To sail life's stormy seas<br>But left our anchor where it lay<br>Beneath her green old trees.<br>Then old and young, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As now we lift its lengthening chain,<br>That held us fast of old,<br>The rusted rings grow bright again,--<br>Their iron turns to gold.<br>Then old and young, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though scattered ere the setting sun,<br>As leaves when wild winds blow,<br>Our home is here, our hearts are one,<br>Till Charles forgets to flow.<br>Then old and young, etc.</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=472590" data-title="The Parting Song de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="FESTIVAL OF THE ALUMNI, 1857 THE noon of summer sheds its ray On Harvard's holy ground; The Matron calls, the sons obey, And gather smiling round. CHORUS. Then old and young together stand, The sunshine and the snow, As heart to heart, and hand..."></div> </div> </div>

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