| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The One White Hair |
| | | Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
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| THE WISEST of the wise | |
| Listen to pretty lies | |
| And love to hear them told; | |
| Doubt not that Solomon | |
| Listen’d to many a one,— | 5 |
| Some in his youth, and more when he grew old. | |
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| I never was among | |
| The choir of Wisdom’s song, | |
| But pretty lies lov’d I | |
| As much as any king, | 10 |
| When youth was on the wing, | |
| And (must it then be told?) when youth had quite gone by. | |
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| Alas! and I have not | |
| The pleasant hour forgot | |
| When one pert lady said, | 15 |
| “O Walter! I am quite | |
| Bewilder’d with affright! | |
| I see (sit quiet now) a white hair on your head!” | |
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| Another more benign | |
| Snipp’d it away from mine, | 20 |
| And in her own dark hair | |
| Pretended it was found… | |
| She leap’d, and twirl’d it round… | |
| Fair as she was, she never was so fair! | |
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