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THE LOST by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I DID NOT KNOW TILL SHE WAS LOST
Last Line: THAT NOW IS LEFT BEHIND.

I DID not know till she was lost,
How much she was beloved;
She knows it in that better world
To which she is removed.

I feel as she had only sought
Again her native skies;
I look upon the heavens, and seem
To meet her angel eyes.

Pity, and love, and gentle thoughts,
For her sake, fill my mind;
They are the only part of her
That now is left behind.



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