“The heavy bridge confines your stream,
Through which the barges toil,
Smoke has shut out the sun's glad beam,
Thy waves have caught the soil.
On—on—though weariness it be,
By shoal and barrier cross'd,
Till thou hast reach'd the mighty sea,
And there art wholly lost.”

The Altered River from The Keepsake, 1829
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon785

English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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