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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Silas Weir Mithell 1829-1914 John Bartlett

 
1
    Up anchor! Up anchor!
  Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
  Are thine for a day.
          Dreamland.
2
    Death ’s but one more to-morrow.
          Of one who seemed to have failed.
3
    When youth as lord of my unchallenged fate, 1 
And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
I entertained certain guests of state—
The great of older days.
          On a Boy’s first Reading of “King Henry V.”
 
Note 1.
See Henley, page 829. [back]