WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:46:05 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg agelessness – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. -- Poem (1858-09), “The Deacon’s Masterpiece,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 4 https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/28538/ https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/28538/#respond Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:54:19 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28538 Little of all we value here
Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
Without both feeling and looking queer.
In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Poem (1858-09), “The Deacon’s Masterpiece,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 4
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The poem appears in the middle of an installment of "Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table", collected in Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ch. 11 (1858). ]]> https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/28538/feed/ 0 28538