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 | The complete poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes |  |
How to the scholar's mind each object brings
What some historian tells, some poet sings!
The good gray teacher whom we all revered—
Loved, honored, laughed at, and by freshmen feared,
As from old “Harvard,” where its light began,
From hall to hall the clustering splendors ran—
Took down his well-worn Æschylus and read,
Lit by the rays a thousand tapers shed,
How the swift herald crossed the leagues between
Mycenæ's monarch and his faithless queen;
And thus he read,—my verse but ill displays
The Attic picture, clad in modern phrase:
What some historian tells, some poet sings!
The good gray teacher whom we all revered—
Loved, honored, laughed at, and by freshmen feared,
As from old “Harvard,” where its light began,
From hall to hall the clustering splendors ran—
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Lit by the rays a thousand tapers shed,
How the swift herald crossed the leagues between
Mycenæ's monarch and his faithless queen;
And thus he read,—my verse but ill displays
The Attic picture, clad in modern phrase:
| The complete poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes | |