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On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday

On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday

Walter Savage Landor

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.

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Published 1853.

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