“Oh, glory of the morning!
Oh, ye gifted, young, and brave!
What end have ye, but midnight;
What find ye but the grave?”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

One Day
The Golden Violet (1827)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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