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LA MAISON D'OR (BAR HARBOR) by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

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First Line: FROM THIS FAIR HOME BEHOLD ON EITHER SIDE
Last Line: THEIR SILENT PROMISE OF ETERNAL PEACE.

FROM this fair home behold on either side
The restful mountains or the restless sea:
So the warm sheltering walls of life divide
Time and its tides from still eternity.

Look on the waves: their stormy voices teach
That not on earth may toil and struggle cease.
Look on the mountains: better far than speech
Their silent promise of eternal peace.



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