Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.,
The Deacon's Masterpiece
(1858)
“ That there was n't a chance for one to start. For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills, And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whipple-tree neither less nor more, And the back crossbar as strong as the fore, And spring and axle and hub encore. ”
