John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes. (1809–1894) (continued) |
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| O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses! |
| The Voiceless. |
| 6939 |
| Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea! |
| The chambered Nautilus. |
| 6940 |
| One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! |
| Voyage of the good Ship Union. |
| 6941 |
| His home! the Western giant smiles, And twirls the spotty globe to find it; This little speck, the British Isles? ’T is but a freckle,—never mind it. |
| A good Time going. |
| 6942 |
| But Memory blushes at the sneer, And Honor turns with frown defiant, And Freedom, leaning on her spear, Laughs louder than the laughing giant. |
| A good Time going. |
| 6943 |
| You hear that boy laughing?—you think he’s all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all. |
| The Boys. |
| 6944 |
| Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. |
| How not to settle it. |
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| Lean, hungry, savage anti-everythings. |
| A modest Request. |