Remain!

Portrait of Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

REMAIN, ah not in youth alone! --Tho' youth, where you are, long will stay-- But when my summer days are gone, And my autumnal haste away. 'Can I be always by your side?' No; but the hours you can, you must, Nor rise at Death's approaching stride, Nor go when dust is gone to dust.

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