We know not of its presence, though its power Be on the gradual round of every hour, Now flinging down an empire, now a flower. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

We know not of its presence, though its power Be on the gradual round of every hour, Now flinging down an empire, now a flower.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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