“Ah! love is even more fragile than its gifts!
A tress of raven hair: oh, only those
Whose souls have felt this one idolatry
Can tell how precious is the slightest thing
Affection gives and hallows.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Improvisatrice (1824)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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