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Quotation by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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lecture, March 2, 1871, New York
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It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side,
His shop was just upon the bank, his boat was on the tide;
The daughter of a fisherman, that was so straight and slim,
Lived over on the other bank, right opposite to him.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), U.S. physician, poet. The Ballad of the Oysterman (l. 1–4). . .
Moon Is Shining Bright as Day, The; an Anthology of Good-humored Verse. Ogden Nash, ed. (1953) J. B. Lippincott Company.
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