It ran a hundred years to a day".  
In one of this man's poems, the subject heeds the falling of acorns and chestnuts, attains "peace beneath the peaceful sky", and is compared to a "tender bud" which withered in an attempt to blossom in the snow.  Another of his poem's describes a time when "Georgius Secundus was then alive" and compares the popping of a bubble to the fate of its subject "That was built in such a logical way / It ran a hundred years to a day".  Another of his poems describes a man who had a Roman nose but was cut down by "the pruning-knife of time" and ridicules his three-cornered hat before the narrator encourages the future youth to do the same to him if he ends up on an "old forsaken bough".  FTP, name this American poet of Under the Violets, The Deacon's Masterpiece, and The Last Leaf, who wrote the line "Build me more stately mansions, O my soul" in his poem The Chambered Nautilus.
In one of this man's poems, the subject heeds the falling of acorns and chestnuts, attains "peace beneath the peaceful sky", and is compared to a "tender bud" which withered in an attempt to blossom in the snow.  
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.