Love
Does Your Voice Never Fail You in Singing a Song
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
Does your voice never fail you in singing a song
So false and so spiteful on us who are young?
When, lady, as surely as you are alive
We are seldom inconstant till seventy-five,
And altho' I have question'd a hundred such men,
They never would say why we should be so then.
In another six years I shall know all about it;
But some knowledge is vain, and we do best without it.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Does Your Voice Never Fail You in Singing a Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/493/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Does Your Voice Never Fail You in Singing a Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/493/.
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