“Thou blessed season of our spring,
When hopes are angels on the wing;
Bound upwards to their heavenly shore,
Alas! to visit earth no more.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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