Remain!
1775-1864
REMAIN, ah not in youth alone!
--Tho' youth, where you are, long will stay--
But when my summer days are gone,
And my autumnal haste away.
'Can I be always by your side?'
No; but the hours you can, you must,
Nor rise at Death's approaching stride,
Nor go when dust is gone to dust.
DayPoems Poem No. 518
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/518.html">Remain! by Walter Savage Landor</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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