Living
Promise
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
I may not add to youth's brief days,
Nor bid the fleeting hours stand still;
No, Hose; but I can waft your praise
To distant ages, and I will.
Forgotten be my name if yours
Ill its fresh purity endures.
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Promise.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/840/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “Promise.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/840/.
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