Versos English Oliver Wendell Holmes (“My Grandmamma Has Said.”)

English poem

(“My Grandmamma Has Said.”)

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But now his nose is thin,

And it rests upon his chin

``Like a staff,

And a crook is in his back,

And a melancholy crack

``In his laugh.=

I know it is a sin

For me to sit and grin

``At him here;