English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Walter Savage Landor
544. Twenty Years Hence
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If not quite dim, yet rather so;
Yet yours from others they shall know,
Twenty years hence.
That I be call’d to take a nap
In a cool cell where thunder-clap
Was never heard,
A not too sadly sigh’d ‘Alas!’
And I shall catch, ere you can pass,
That wingèd word.