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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, oh where are the visions of morning
Last Line: Till the last pebble is dry.
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates
First Line: Where, oh where are the visions of morning
Last Line: Till the last pebble is dry.
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates
WHERE, oh where are the visions of morning,
Fresh as the dews of our prime?
Gone, like tenants that quit without warning,
Down the back entry of time.
Where, oh where are life's lilies and roses,
Nursed in the golden dawn's smile?
Dead as the bulrushes round little Moses,
On the old banks of the Nile.
Where are the Marys, and Anns, and Elizas,
Loving and lovely of yore?
Look in the columns of old Advertisers, --
Married and dead by the score.
Where the gray colts and the ten-year-old fillies,
Saturday's triumph and joy?
Gone, like our friend Achilles,
Homer's ferocious old boy.
Die-away dreams of ecstatic emotion,
Hopes like young eagles at play,
Vows of unheard-of and endless devotion,
How ye have faded away!
Yet, though the ebbing of Time's mighty river
Leave our young blossoms to die,
Let him roll smooth in his current forever,
Till the last pebble is dry.
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