"We met in secret : mystery is to love Like perfume to the flower ; the maiden's blush Looks loveliest when her cheek is pale with fear."
— Mystery

January 1, 1970

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The London Literary Gazette (18th May 1822), Poetic Sketches. Second Series - Sketch the Third Rosalie