WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR: "Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher"

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR: "Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher"


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.


"Discurso moribundo de um velho filósofo" (Tradução de Adriano Nunes)


Pugna com ninguém, pra todos inválida:
Amei a Natureza, e, após, a Arte:
Aqueci as mãos no fulgor da Vida;
Ela afunda; e seguirei pronto à parte.


In: LANDOR, Walter Savage. "The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor". New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969.