Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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