“Those cheerful bells, how can they bid
A welcome to the new-born Year?
I think on what the past has been;
I cannot hope—I only fear.”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(4th January 1834) The New Year
The London Literary Gazette, 1833-1835

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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