Love
Alas, How Soon the Hours Are Over
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
Alas, how soon the hours are over
Counted us out to play the lover!
And how much narrower is the stage
Allotted us to play the sage!
But when we play the fool, how wide
The theatre expands! beside,
How long the audience sits before us!
How many prompters! what a chorus!
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Alas, How Soon the Hours Are Over.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/521/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Alas, How Soon the Hours Are Over.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/521/.
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