Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). To My Ninth Decade. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

To My Ninth Decade

By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


TO my ninth decade I have totter’d on;
And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady;
She, who once led me where she would, is gone,
So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.