Here you will find thePoemDefianceof poet Walter Savage Landor
Catch her and hold her if you can-- See, she defies you with her fan, Shuts, opens, and then holds it spread In threatening guise over your head. Ah! why did you not start before She reached the porch and closed the door? Simpleton! Will you never learn That girls and time will not return; Of each you should have made the most; Once gone, they are forever lost. In vain your knuckles knock your brow, In vain will you remember how Like a slim brook the gamesome maid Sparkled, and ran into the shade.
