Departure



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.

-Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864),
I Strove with None,
from The Last Fruit off an Old Tree







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