“The morning Sun arose —
Still the festal board was spread —
Still hosts and guests were round;
But hosts and guests were dead!”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

22nd April 1826) The Death-Feast (under the pen name Iole
The London Literary Gazette, 1826

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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