DYING SPEECH OF AN OLD PHILOSOPHER - Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems

 
 

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DYING SPEECH OF AN OLD PHILOSOPHER

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife:
      Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art:
I warm'd both hands before the fire of Life;
      It sinks; and I am ready to depart.