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 | The complete poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes |  |
Some grave compatriot, having seen perhaps
The pictured page that goes in Worcester's Maps,
And read in earnest what was said in jest,
“Who drives fat oxen”—please to add the rest,—
Sprung the odd notion that the poet's dreams
Grow in the ratio of his hills and streams;
And hence insisted that the aforesaid “bard,”
Pink of the future, fancy's pattern-card,
The babe of nature in the “giant West,”
Must be of course her biggest and her best.
The pictured page that goes in Worcester's Maps,
And read in earnest what was said in jest,
“Who drives fat oxen”—please to add the rest,—
Sprung the odd notion that the poet's dreams
Grow in the ratio of his hills and streams;
And hence insisted that the aforesaid “bard,”
Pink of the future, fancy's pattern-card,
The babe of nature in the “giant West,”
Must be of course her biggest and her best.
| The complete poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes | |