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Title: The Promise Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Titles by Holmes] NOT charity we ask, The little-heeded toy Heaven rains on every heart, One kindly deed may turn The pleasures thou hast planned,-- Living, thou dost not live, HE promised even so! March 20, 1859. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |