On His Seventy-fifth Birthday

Portrait of Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

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