Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump |
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CLEONE TO ASPASIA.
We mind not how the sun in the mid-skyIs hastening on; but when the golden orb
Strikes the extreme of earth, and when the gulfs
Of air and ocean open to receive him,
Dampness and gloom invade us: then we think,
Ah! thus is it with Youth. Too fast his feet
Run on for sight; hour follows hour; fair maid
Succeeds fair maid; bright eyes bestar his couch;
The cheerful horn awakens him; the feast,
The revel, the entangling dance allure,
And voices mellower than the Muse's own
Heave up his buoyant bosom on their wave.
A little while and then . . Ah, Youth! dear Youth!
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When thou art gone, Life may go too; the sigh
That follows is for thee, and not for Life.
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