Living
Never Must My Bones Be Laid
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Never must my bones be laid
Under the mimosa's shade.
He to whom I gave my all
Swept away her guardian wall,
And her green and level plot
Green or level now is not.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Never Must My Bones Be Laid.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/968/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Never Must My Bones Be Laid.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/968/.
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