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Poem by Walter Savage Landor


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Well I remember how you smiled
  To see me write your name upon
The soft sea-sand--'O! what a child!
  You think you're writing upon stone!'
I have since written what no tide
  Shall ever wash away, what men
Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide
  And find Ianthe's name again.



Walter Savage Landor


Walter Savage Landor's other poems:
  1. Soon, O Ianthe! Life Is O'er
  2. Dirce
  3. Corinna, from Athens, to Tanagra
  4. Past Ruin'd Ilion Helen Lives
  5. Tell Me Not Things Past All Belief


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