“... the desolate
Is doubly sorrowful when it recalls
It was not always desolate.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Change from The London Literary Gazette (3rd January 1829)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
“Magnificent desolation.”
Words said when he first stepped onto the Moon; Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham, Magnificent desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon (2009). Random House: p. 33-34.
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