The past is the poet's,-that world is his own; Thence hath his music its truth and its tone. He calls up the shadows of ages long fled, And light, as life lovely, illumines the dead. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

The past is the poet's,-that world is his own; Thence hath his music its truth and its tone. He calls up the shadows of ages long fled, And light, as life lovely, illumines the dead.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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