Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

The Appeal

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REMAIN, ah not in youth alone,

Though youth, where you are, long will stay,

But when my summer days are gone,

And my autumnal haste away.

“Can I be always by your side?”

No; but the hours you can, you must,

Nor rise at Death’s approaching stride,

Nor go when dust is gone to dust.