Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher

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Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher (:28)

by Walter Savage Landor 

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode

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.