Quotation by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades!
Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids!
O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,—
Depart,—be off,—excede,—evade,—erump!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), U.S. physician, writer. Intramural Aestivation (l. 25–28). . .

Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press.

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