I HAVE come with my verses--I think I may claim <br />It is not the first time I have tried on the same. <br />They were puckered in rhyme, they were wrinkled in wit; <br />But your hearts were so large that they made them a fit. <br /> <br />I have come--not to tease you with more of my rhyme, <br />But to feel as I did in the blessed old time; <br />I want to hear him with the Brobdingnag laugh-- <br />We count him at least as three men and a half. <br /> <br />I have come to meet judges so wise and so grand <br />That I shake in my shoes while they're shaking my hand; <br />And the prince among merchants who put back the crown <br />When they tried to enthrone him the King of the Town. <br /> <br />I have come to see George--Yes, I think there are four, <br />If they all were like these I could wish there were more. <br />I have come to see one whom we used to call 'Jim,' <br />I want to see--oh, don't I want to see him? <br /> <br />I have come to grow young--on my word I declare <br />I have thought I detected a change in my hair! <br />One hour with 'The Boys' will restore it to brown-- <br />And a wrinkle or two I expect to rub down. <br /> <br />Yes, that's what I've come for, as all of us come; <br />When I meet the dear Boys I could wish I were dumb. <br />You asked me, you know, but it's spoiling the fun; <br />I have told what I came for; my ditty is done.<br /><br />Oliver Wendell Holmes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-i-have-come-for/
