Our sky has lost another star,
The earth has claimed its own,
And into dread eternity
A glorious one is gone.
He who could give departed things
So much of light and breath,
He is himself now with the past -
Gone forth from life to death. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Our sky has lost another star, The earth has claimed its own, And into dread eternity A glorious one is gone. He who could give departed things So much of light and breath, He is himself now with the past - Gone forth from life to death.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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