William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.
To AgeWalter Savage Landor (17751864)
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Have we lived door by door:
The Fates have laid aside their shears
Perhaps for some few more.
When better boys were taught,
But thou at length hath made me sage,
If I am sage in aught.
Too little they from me,
But thou hast pointed well the pen
That writes these lines to thee.
One vile, the other vain;
One’s scourge, the other’s telescope,
I shall not see again:
My notice shall engage—
He who hath braved Youth’s dizzy heat
Dreads not the frost of Age.