I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art:I warm’d both hands before the fire of life;It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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1 passage by Walter Savage Landor, from Finis. Walter Savage Landor died in 1864, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
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English writer and poet (1775–1864), known for Imaginary Conversations and short lyric poems such as “Finis”.
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