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English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Walter Savage Landor

545. Proud Word You Never Spoke


PROUD word you never spoke, but you will speak

Four not exempt from pride some future day.

Resting on one white hand a warm wet cheek,

Over my open volume you will say,

‘This man loved me’—then rise and trip away.