Old Ironsides (Holmes)

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Old Ironsides (1830)
by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Written on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the frigate USS Constitution. Thanks in part to the poem, it was saved from being decommissioned, and is now the oldest commissioned warship in the world still afloat.

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Versions of Old Ironsides include:

"Old Ironsides" in The Riverside song book, 1893.
"Old Ironsides" in Poems That Every Child Should Know, 1904.