"The pavement stones abound" as the title character "totters over the ground with his cane" in this poem.
"The pavement stones abound" as the title character "totters over the ground with his cane" in this poem. He is described as having "a Roman nose" and a "cheek...like a rose in the snow" and "the names he loved to hear have been carved for many a year on the tomb." Its subject is Revolutionary War hero Thomas Melville, who was the last man in Boston to wear a cocked hat. Time is described as "a pruning knife" and the subject is hanging "upon the tree in the spring" in --for 10 points--, what poem by Olivier Wendell Holmes.
"The pavement stones abound" as the title character "totters over the ground with his cane" in this poem.
“The {Last Leaf”}