"We know not of its presence, though its power Be on the gradual round of every hour, Now flinging down an empire, now a flower."
— Necessity

January 1, 1970

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The New Monthly Magazine, 1837-1, vol.49, 'Three Extracts from the Diary of a Week' - 'Necessity'