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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

On the Death of Southey

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

NOT the last struggles of the Sun,

Precipitated from his golden throne,

Hold darkling mortals in sublime suspense;

But the calm exod of a man

Nearer, tho’ far above, who ran

The race we run, when Heaven recalls him hence.