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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Meeting Of The Alumni Of Harvard College</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I THANK you, MR. PRESIDENT, you've kindly broke the ice;<br>Virtue should always be the first,--I 'm only SECOND VICE--<br>(A vice is something with a screw that's made to hold its jaw<br>Till some old file has played away upon an ancient saw).</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Sweet brothers by the Mother's side, the babes of days gone by,<br>All nurslings of her Juno breasts whose milk is never dry,<br>We come again, like half-grown boys, and gather at her beck<br>About her knees, and on her lap, and clinging round her neck.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We find her at her stately door, and in her ancient chair,<br>Dressed in the robes of red and green she always loved to wear.<br>Her eye has all its radiant youth, her cheek its morning flame;<br>We drop our roses as we go, hers flourish still the same.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We have been playing many an hour, and far away we've strayed,<br>Some laughing in the cheerful sun, some lingering in the shade;<br>And some have tired, and laid them down where darker shadows fall,<br>Dear as her loving voice may be, they cannot hear its call.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">What miles we 've travelled since we shook the dew-drops from our shoes<br>We gathered on this classic green, so famed for heavy dues!<br>How many boys have joined the game, how many slipped away,<br>Since we've been running up and down, and having out our play!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">One boy at work with book and brief, and one with gown and band,<br>One sailing vessels on the pool, one digging sand,<br>One flying paper kites on change, one planting little pills,--<br>The seeds of certain annual flowers well known as little bills.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">What maidens met us on our way, and clasped us hand in hand!<br>What cherubs,--not the legless kind, that fly, but never stand!<br>How many a youthful head we've seen put on its silver crown<br>What sudden changes back again to youth's empurpled brown!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But fairer sights have met our eyes, and broader lights have shone,<br>Since others lit their midnight lamps where once we trimmed our own;<br>A thousand trains that flap the sky with flags of rushing fire,<br>And, throbbing in the Thunderer's hand, Thought's million-chorded lyre.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We've seen the sparks of Empire fly beyond the mountain bars,<br>Till, glittering o'er the Western wave, they joined the setting stars;<br>And ocean trodden into paths that trampling giants ford,<br>To find the planet's vertebrae and sink its spinal cord.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We've tried reform,--and chloroform,--and both have turned our brain;<br>When France called up the photograph, we roused the foe to pain;<br>Just so those earlier sages shared the chaplet of renown,--<br>Hers sent a bladder to the clouds, ours brought their lightning down.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We've seen the little tricks of life, its varnish and veneer,<br>Its stucco-fronts of character flake off and disappear,<br>We 've learned that oft the brownest hands will heap the biggest pile,<br>And met with many a 'perfect brick' beneath a rimless 'tile.'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">What dreams we 've had of deathless name, as scholars, statesmen, bards,<br>While Fame, the lady with the trump, held up her picture cards!<br>Till, having nearly played our game, she gayly whispered, 'Ah!<br>I said you should be something grand,--you'll soon be grandpapa.'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Well, well, the old have had their day, the young must take their turn;<br>There's something always to forget, and something still to learn;<br>But how to tell what's old or young, the tap-root from the sprigs,<br>Since Florida revealed her fount to Ponce de Leon Twiggs?</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The wisest was a Freshman once, just freed from bar and bolt,<br>As noisy as a kettle-drum, as leggy as a colt;<br>Don't be too savage with the boys,--the Primer does not say<br>The kitten ought to go to church because the cat doth prey.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The law of merit and of age is not the rule of three;<br>Non constat that A. M. must prove as busy as A. B.<br>When Wise the father tracked the son, ballooning through the skies,<br>He taught a lesson to the old,--go thou and do like Wise!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Now then, old boys, and reverend youth, of high or low degree,<br>Remember how we only get one annual out of three,<br>And such as dare to simmer down three dinners into one<br>Must cut their salads mighty short, and pepper well with fun.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I've passed my zenith long ago, it's time for me to set;<br>A dozen planets wait to shine, and I am lingering yet,<br>As sometimes in the blaze of day a milk-and-watery moon<br>Stains with its dim and fading ray the lustrous blue of noon.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Farewell! yet let one echo rise to shake our ancient hall;<br>God save the Queen,--whose throne is here,--the Mother of us all<br>Till dawns the great commencement-day on every shore and sea,<br>And 'Expectantur' all mankind, to take their last Degree!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a></strong></div>