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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

On His Seventy-fifth Birthday

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

I STROVE with none; for none was worth my strife,

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;

I warmed both hands before the fire of life,

It sinks, and I am ready to depart.