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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

‘Twenty years hence’

TWENTY years hence my eyes may grow

If not quite dim, yet rather so,

Yet yours from others they shall know

Twenty years hence.

Twenty years hence, though it may hap

That I be called to take a nap

In a cool cell where thunder clap

Was never heard,

There breathe but o’er my arch of grass,

A not too sadly sighed ‘Alas!’

And I shall catch ere you can pass

That wingèd word.