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English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Walter Savage Landor

550. Well I Remember


WELL I remember how you smiled

To see me write your name upon

The soft sea-sand—‘O! what a child!

You think you’re writing upon stone!’

I have since written what no tide

Shall ever wash away, what men

Unborn shall read o’er ocean wide

And find Ianthe’s name again.