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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472611" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Strong Heroic Line</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FRIENDS of the Muse, to you of right belong<br>The first staid footsteps of my square-toed song;<br>Full well I know the strong heroic line<br>Has lost its fashion since I made it mine;<br>But there are tricks old singers will not learn, <br>And this grave measure still must serve my turn.<br>So the old bird resumes the selfsame note<br>His first young summer wakened in his throat;<br>The selfsame tune the old canary sings,<br>And all unchanged the bobolink’s carol rings; <br>When the tired songsters of the day are still<br>The thrush repeats his long-remembered trill;<br>Age alters not the crow’s persistent caw,<br>The Yankee’s “Haow,” the stammering Briton’s “Haw;”<br>And so the hand that takes the lyre for you <br>Plays the old tune on strings that once were new.<br>Nor let the rhymester of the hour deride<br>The straight-backed measure with its stately stride:<br>It gave the mighty voice of Dryden scope;<br>It sheathed the steel-bright epigrams of Pope; <br>In Goldsmith’s verse it learned a sweeter strain;<br>Byron and Campbell wore its clanking chain;<br>I smile to listen while the critic’s scorn<br>Flouts the proud purple kings have nobly worn;<br>Bid each new rhymer try his dainty skill <br>And mould his frozen phrases as he will;<br>We thank the artist for his neat device;<br>The shape is pleasing, though the stuff is ice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fashions will change—the new costume allures,<br>Unfading still the better type endures; <br>While the slashed doublet of the cavalier<br>Gave the old knight the pomp of chanticleer,<br>Our last-hatched dandy with his glass and stick<br>Recalls the semblance of a new-born chick;<br>(To match the model he is aiming at <br>He ought to wear an eggshell for a hat).<br>He ought to wear an eggshell for a hat).<br>Which of these objects would a painter choose,<br>And which Velasquez or Van Dyck refuse?</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 first staid footsteps of my square-toed song;
Full well I know the strong heroic line
Has lost its fashion since I made it mine;
But there are tricks old singers will not learn, 
And this grave measu..."></div>
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