“Alas! that every lovely thing
Lives only but for withering,—
That spring rainbows and summer shine
End but in autumn's pale decline.”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Canto I
The Troubadour (1825)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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