“Of all the fowls that sweep the air
None with the Peacock may compare;
Not only for its loveliness,
Though queens in vain might ask such dress,
But o'er those painted plumes are cast
So many shadows from the past”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

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