Then would he swear
That he would conquer time; that in his reign
It never should be winter; he would have
No pain, no growing old, no death at all. (Hartley Coleridge)

Then would he swear That he would conquer time; that in his reign It never should be winter; he would have No pain, no growing old, no death at all.

Hartley Coleridge

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