Oliver Wendell Holmes - Mount Greylock, MA
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Lightnin Bug
N 42° 38.252 W 073° 10.009
18T E 650297 N 4722193
The summit of Mt. Greylock (highest peak in Massachussetts) has an inscribed rock bearing a couple lines of the poetry of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Waymark Code: WM12TTX
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 07/15/2020
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member fi67
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The brief inscription is taken from the Holmes poem "The Ploughman":

"Till Greylock thunders to the setting sun.
The sword has rescued what the ploughshare won."

Many poets and authors have taken inspiration from Mount Greylock, including Holmes. Holmes had written several poems to Mount Greylock during his time living in the Canoe Meadows area of nearby Pittsfield, MA.

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