Versos English Oliver Wendell Holmes (“By The Crier On His Round.”)

English poem

(“By The Crier On His Round.”)

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Listen in the reader

But the old three-cornered hat,

And the breeches, and all that,

``Are so queer!

And if I should live to be

The last leaf upon the tree

``In the spring,--

Let them smile, as I do now,

At the old forsaken bough

``Where I cling