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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) — physician, essayist, and the most quoted American wit of his century — gathered here the occasional verse of his last years: the poems written for anniversaries, for friends, for the public occasions a New England man of letters could not escape. The title poem looks back on a long life with the lightness that was his signature.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1888 Boston edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.