“Around his neck a ribbon clung,
Close to his heart a picture hung :
I saw the face — it was not mine;
I saw, too, a small dagger shine,
A curious toy — you know the rest.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1831-2) The Convict
The Monthly Magazine

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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