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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

On Living Too Long

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IS it not better at an early hour

In its calm cell to rest the weary head,

While birds are singing and while blooms the bower,

Than sit the fire out and go starv’d to bed?