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Poem by Walter Savage Landor


Daniel Defoe


Few will acknowledge what they owe
To persecuted, brave Defoe.
Achilles, in Homeric song,
May, or he may not, live so long
As Crusoe; few their strength had tried
Without so staunch and safe a guide.
What boy is there who never laid
Under his pillow, half afraid,
That precious volume, lest the morrow
For unlearnt lessons might bring sorrow?
But nobler lessons he has taught
Wide-awake scholars who fear'd naught:
A Rodney and a Nelson may
Without him not have won the day.



Walter Savage Landor


Walter Savage Landor's other poems:
  1. Past Ruin'd Ilion Helen Lives
  2. With Rosy Hand a Little Girl Prest Down
  3. Well I Remember How You Smiled
  4. Pleasure! Why Thus Desert the Heart
  5. The Gates of Fame and of the Grave


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