“Farewell, and when to-morrow
Seems little, like to-day,
And we find life's deepest sorrow
Melts gradual away;
Yet do not quite forget me.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1837 1) (Vol. 49) Songs - I.
The Monthly Magazine

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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