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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife, Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm’d both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife, Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm’d both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial
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- Walter Savage Landor
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- Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 325 · printed citation: W. S. Landor. · compiler notes excluded
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