“Well, read my cheek, and watch my eye,—
    Too strictly school'd are they,
One secret of my soul to show,
    One hidden thought betray.”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Source: The Venetian Bracelet (1829), Lines of Life

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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