The leaves were gone from all, save where the pine
Threw the wide shadow of its unchang'd green.
I could not envy it that fadeless state.-
Ah! who would be the last, the only one
That ruin spares-no; if the blight must pass
O'er all around, let it pass o'er me too! (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

The leaves were gone from all, save where the pine Threw the wide shadow of its unchang'd green. I could not envy it that fadeless state.- Ah! who would be the last, the only one That ruin spares-no; if the blight must pass O'er all around, let it pass o'er me too!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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