Remain!

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Remain! by Walter Savage Landor

 REMAIN, ah not in youth alone! 
 --Tho' youth, where you are, long will stay-- 
But when my summer days are gone, 
 And my autumnal haste away. 
'Can I be always by your side?' 
 No; but the hours you can, you must, 
Nor rise at Death's approaching stride, 
 Nor go when dust is gone to dust.

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