“Does the sweet morning rise,
Bride-like, from sleep,
When their first revelries
Bird and bee keep,
Singing out joyously
In the green tree?
Then, when my hopes are high,
Think I of thee.”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(5th January 1833) Songs
The London Literary Gazette, 1833-1835

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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