“I stood between the meeting Years,
The coming and the past,
And I ask'd of the future one,
Wilt thou be like the last?”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1826-1) Stanzas on the New Year
The Monthly Magazine

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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