There grew her father's cypress tree,
No other monument had he.
He bade that never funeral stone
Should tell of glory overthrown,-
What could it say, but foreign sky
Had seen the exile pine and die? (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

There grew her father's cypress tree, No other monument had he. He bade that never funeral stone Should tell of glory overthrown,- What could it say, but foreign sky Had seen the exile pine and die?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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