Time & Brevity
How Often, When Life's Summer Day
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Time & Brevity
How often, when life's summer day
Is waning, and its sun descends,
Wisdom drives laughing wit away,
And lovers shrivel into friends!
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Landor, Walter Savage. “How Often, When Life's Summer Day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/935/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “How Often, When Life's Summer Day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/935/.
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