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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

V. Death and Bereavement

Farewell

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

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.