Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services Corporation
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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.