Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) English statesman and poet
Part i, canto ii.
Lucile (1860)
“Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?”
— Elizabeth Wein, book Rose Under Fire
Source: Rose Under Fire
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