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I Strove With None, For None Was Worth My Strife; Nature I Loved
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife;
Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art.
I warm'd both hands against the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
-- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
-- Dying Speech of an old Philosopher
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I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute.
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I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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