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To D'Orsay Going to France
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Arts & Sciences
You lose your liberty ; no cross
Or ribbon can supply that loss ;
Naught could your friend bequeath you save
The less warm refuge of the grave ?
Who was it squandered all her wealth.
And swept away the bloom of health ?
Cite this poem
MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “To D'Orsay Going to France.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/249/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “To D'Orsay Going to France.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/249/.
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