William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.
PlaysWalter Savage Landor (17751864)
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Counted us out to play the lover!
And how much narrower is the stage
Allotted us to play the sage!
But when we play the fool, how wide,
The theatre expands! beside,
How long the audience sits before us!
How many prompters! what a chorus!