Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Walter Savage Landor. 17751864560. Twenty Years hence
TWENTY years hence my eyes may grow, | |
If not quite dim, yet rather so; | |
Yet yours from others they shall know, | |
Twenty years hence. | |
Twenty years hence, though it may hap | 5 |
That I be call’d to take a nap | |
In a cool cell where thunder-clap | |
Was never heard, | |
There breathe but o’er my arch of grass | |
A not too sadly sigh’d ‘Alas!’ | 10 |
And I shall catch, ere you can pass, | |
That wingèd word. |