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ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

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First Line: FRIENDS! HEAR THE WORDS MY WANDERING THOUGHTS WOULD SAY
Last Line: AND, SHATTERED BY THE FALL, I STAND ALONE.
Subject(s): DEATH; SOUTHEY, ROBERT (1774-1843); DEAD, THE;
Friends! hear the words my wandering thoughts would say,
And cast them into shape some other day.
Southey, my friend of forty years, is gone,
And, shattered by the fall, I stand alone.



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