...reading poetry, and I came across the following, which reminded me of Ed: "ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY" I strove with none; for none was worth my strife....fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. Walter Savage Landor I read poetry nearly all morning. Remember in Wakayama when we used to read poetry...

...on the purple, honey-laden flowers. And remembering him thus, I recall Walter Savage Lander's lines: "I warmed both hands before the fire of life / It sinks, and I am ready to depart." REGINALD V. JONES, CB, CBE, FRS, the first living member elected to the Electronic Warfare Hall of...

...is encapsulated in two lines of a poem he likes by Walter Savage Landor, entitled 'Finis': I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. 2 William H.Gillespie's psychoanalysis of sexual perversions: an appreciation and integration DR CHARLES...

...People temperamentally opposed to attempts to prolong life are fond of quoting Walter Savage Landor's Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed...fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. In Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow a young man taking leave of his hosts taps the barometer in the entrance...

...joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savor. As it is, they remain perennially fresh. I warmed both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart. This attitude is quite as rational as that of indignation with death. If therefore moods were to be...

...just discovered it. Walter Savage Landor, and I find it now in The New Oxford Book of English Verse: I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. Dorothy talked quite...

...olt) Hong Kong Club Building on Jackson Road was beinij pulled down. CHAPTER FOURTEEN END OF AN ERA I strove with none, for none was worth my strife Nature...both hands before the fire of life It sinks — and 1 am ready to depart.1 I n 1960, Noel was one year short of seventy. It is not surprising that at this...

...not this last wish be vain: Deceive, deceive me once again! 5989 'Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher' rop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by vlolence, but by oft falling. LAUDER Sir Har 5990 Epigram in The Atlas George the First was always reckoned Vile, but viler George the Second; And...

...strove with none, for none was worth mv strife: / Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art: / I warm'd both hands before the fire of life. / It sinks: and I am ready to depart." 19. The first word is mispelled on his gravestone at plot 58 of the University Cemetery in Charlottesville;...

...joys beyond the skies." In 1927 Herbert Wolcott Brown died, the carving on his tombstone declaring, I strove with none, for none was worth my strife....the fire of life: It sinks and I am ready to depart. Graveyards are rich with the figures of story. "Mrs. Bathshua," the relict of Captain Hezekiah Bugbee,...