“My heart is with thee, Iove! though now
Thou'rt far away from me :
I envy even my own thoughts,
For they may fly to thee.”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(19th October 1822) Songs of Absence
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822

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