Separation

Portrait of Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

THERE is a mountain and a wood between us, Where the lone shepherd and late bird have seen us Morning and noon and eventide repass. Between us now the mountain and the wood Seem standing darker than last year they stood, And say we must not cross--alas! alas!

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