Is this the curse that is laid on the earth? And must it ever be so, That there can be nothing of human good But must from some evil flow?... (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Is this the curse that is laid on the earth? And must it ever be so, That there can be nothing of human good But must from some evil flow?...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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