Call him not old whose visionary brain Holds o’er the post … - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Call him not old whose visionary brain Holds o’er the post its undivided reign, For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in this soul.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (29 August 1809 – 8 October 1894) was an American physician, writer, poet, and the father of US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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For him in vain the envious seasons roll,
Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

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