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Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams

By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump

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VIII.

[“Call me not forth,” said one who sate retired]

“Call me not forth,” said one who sate retired,
Whom Love had once, but Envy never, fired.
“I scorn the crowd: no clap of hands he seeks
Who walks among the stateliest of the Greeks.”