“But this is as a dream, — the plough has pass'd
Where the stag bounded, and the day has looked
On the green twilight of the forest-trees.
This Oak has no companion!”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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The Oak from The London Literary Gazette (19th April 1823) Fragments
The Improvisatrice (1824)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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