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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)

Friends

HOW often, when life’s summer day

Is waning, and its sun descends,

Wisdom drives laughing wit away,

And lovers shrivel into friends!