XVIII

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Hector in the Garden

That no dreamer, no neglecter,

      Of the present's work unsped,

      I may wake up and be doing,

      Life's heroic ends pursuing,

Though my past is dead as Hector,

      And though Hector is twice dead.

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