Time & Brevity
There Is a Time When the Romance of Life
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Time & Brevity
There is a time when the romance of life
Should be shut up, and closed with double clasp:
Better that this be done before the dust
That none can blow away falls into it.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “There Is a Time When the Romance of Life.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/623/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “There Is a Time When the Romance of Life.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/623/.
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