Living
Across, Up, Down, Our Fortunes Go
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Across, up, down, our fortunes go,
Like particles of feathery snow,
Never so certain or so sound
As when they're fallen to the ground.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Across, Up, Down, Our Fortunes Go.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/558/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Across, Up, Down, Our Fortunes Go.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/558/.
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