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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

III. Adversity

Man

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

IN his own image the Creator made,

His own pure sunbeam quickened thee, O man!

Thou breathing dial! since the day began

The present hour was ever marked with shade!