“Call him not old whose visionary brain
Holds o’er the post its undivided reign”

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The Old Player" (1861), in Songs in Many Keys (1862).
Context: Call him not old whose visionary brain
Holds o’er the post its undivided reign,
For him in vain the envious seasons roll,
Who bears eternal summer in this soul.

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