Ballad of the Oysterman
Author: first_name: Oliver Wendell
last_name: Holmes, Sr.
Language: English
Year: 1893

from THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:<br>
TO MY READERS<br>
NAY, blame me not; I might have spared<br>
Your patience many a trivial verse,<br>
Yet these my earlier welcome shared,<br>
So, let the better shield the worse.