“Storms, thunders, waves!
Howl, crash, and bellow till ye get your fill;
Ye sometimes rest; men never can be still
But in their graves.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Daily Trials" in Companion Poets (1871).

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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

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