On His Seventy-fifth Birthday

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.

Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Lutei com nada e nada valia a lida
Amei a Natureza e logo após a Arte;
Aqueci as mãos ante o fogo da vida;
Tudo se afunda e estou como quem já parte.

Walter Savage Landor