On His Eightieth Birthday

Portrait of Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

To my ninth decade I have tottered on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

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