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ON RECEIVING A PORTRAIT by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

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First Line: TO GAZE ON YOU WHEN LIFE'S LAST GLEAMS DECLINE
Last Line: AND LEAVE BUT ONE MAN HAPPIER HERE BELOW.
Subject(s): PORTRAITS;
To gaze on you when life's last gleams decline,
And hold your hand, to the last clasp, in mine . .
Of these two wishes, these my only two,
One has been granted, gentle maid, by you:
Were thus the other certain, I should go,
And leave but one man happier here below.



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