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The One Hoss Shay by Oliver Wendell Holmes is a collection of stirring and imagery-filled poems about old Boston in the 1800s. Excerpt: "Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it—ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits…"
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the “Breakfast Table” series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
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The One Hoss Shay - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The One Hoss Shay
With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & / The Broomstick Train
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066209247
Table of Contents
Preface
The Deacon’s Masterpiece
HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET
THE BROOMSTICK TRAIN
PrefacePreface
Table of Contents
My
publishers suggested the bringing together of the three poems here presented to the reader as being to some extent alike in their general character. The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay
is a perfectly intelligible conception, whatever material difficulties it presents. It is conceivable that a being of an order superior to humanity should so understand the conditions of matter that he could construct a machine which should go to pieces, if not into its constituent atoms, at a given moment of the future. The mind may take a certain pleasure in this picture of the impossible. The event follows as a logical consequence of the presupposed condition of things.
There is a practical lesson to be got out of the story. Observation shows us in what point any particular mechanism is most likely to give way. In a wagon, for instance, the weak point is where the axle enters the hub or nave.
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