Living
The Banquet Over
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
I leave the table: take my place,
Ye young, and, when ye rise, say grace.
Hence all unthankful ones, and go
Where neither vines nor myrtles grow.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Banquet Over.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/844/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Banquet Over.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/844/.
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