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W. S. LANDOR
Foremost was Landor found,
His leonine mien with Attic charm subdued,
Supreme in sculptured verse, and radiant prose
Encroaching on its sister's narrower bound;
In every clime and scene his gathering ground—
City and camp and cloistral solitude;
His range the world, a cameo, or a rose.
He held a mirror to all mood and thought,
And, ere it fled, each swift reflection caught
Of poet, statesman, courtesan, and sage.
The art of Life, the life of Art, he scanned
And moulded as the potter to his hand:—
The life of Athens in its golden age:—
Of Tuscan gardens, under rambling bines
Repeopled with Boccaccio's Florentines:—
Of Arden before Shakespeare stormed the stage.
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