Oh! what is memory but a gift Within a ruin'd temple left, Recalling what its beauties were, And then presenting what they are. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Oh! what is memory but a gift Within a ruin'd temple left, Recalling what its beauties were, And then presenting what they are.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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