Tuesday, December 23, 2008

On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday

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

~Walter Savage Landor

1 comment:

  1. OMG, you know Leonard Cohen has a poem called about "his 57th cancer?" Well, not Cohen's but the doctor in his poem.

    okay, I'll stop bugging ya now.

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