Quote#Love
On the horizon is a star
Quote byLetitia Elizabeth Landon · 1802–1838
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Golden Violet (1827), The Golden Violet - The Broken Spell.
English (original)
On the horizon is a star, Its earliest, loveliest one by far ; A blush is yet upon the sky, As if too beautiful to die,— A last gleam of the setting sun, Like hope when love has just begun ;
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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