Love
Did I Then Ask of You Why One So Wise
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
Did I then ask of you why one so wise
Should often look on life with downcast eyes,
And mar sometimes their brightness with a tear?
The vainer and less gentle are more gay,
Over the level wave they glide away,
And little know what hidden rocks are near.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Did I Then Ask of You Why One So Wise.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/382/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Did I Then Ask of You Why One So Wise.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/382/.
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