Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti
Walter Savage Landor (17751864)Twenty years hence
T
If not quite dim, yet rather so,
Yet yours from others they shall know
Twenty years hence.
That I be called to take a nap
In a cool cell where thunder clap
Was never heard,
A not too sadly sighed ‘Alas!’
And I shall catch ere you can pass
That wingèd word.