“What was our parting?—one wild kiss,
How wild I may not say,
One long and breathless clasp, and then
As life were past away.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(29th March 1823) Song - What was our parting ?—one wild kiss,
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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