"Sweet shadows of twilight' how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose! How blest to the toiler his hour of release When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace!"
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poems of the Class of '29, "Our Banker", St 12.
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