<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472627" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To George Peabody</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">DANVERS, 1866</div><div style="margin:10px 0">BANKRUPT! our pockets inside out!<br>Empty of words to speak his praises!<br>Worcester and Webster up the spout!<br>Dead broke of laudatory phrases!<br>Yet why with flowery speeches tease,<br>With vain superlatives distress him?<br>Has language better words than these?<br>THE FRIEND OF ALL HIS RACE, GOD BLESS HIM!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A simple prayer--but words more sweet<br>By human lips were never uttered,<br>Since Adam left the country seat<br>Where angel wings around him fluttered.<br>The old look on with tear-dimmed eyes,<br>The children cluster to caress him,<br>And every voice unbidden cries,<br>THE FRIEND OF ALL HIS RACE, GOD BLESS HIM!</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=472627" data-title="To George Peabody de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="DANVERS, 1866 BANKRUPT! our pockets inside out! Empty of words to speak his praises! Worcester and Webster up the spout! Dead broke of laudatory phrases! Yet why with flowery speeches tease, With vain superlatives distress him? Has language bette..."></div> </div> </div>

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