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62 Literary Gazette, 3rd May 1823, Page 286

The Female Head on the left of “the Hours." A dream of saddest beauty: one pale smile Its light upon the blue-veined forehead shed, As Love had lingered there one little while, Robbed the cheek of its colour, and then fled; Yet leaving a sweet twilight shade, which said There had been sunshine once. Alas! the bloom, The light, the hope, at Love's shrine offered! Yet all in vain,—that altar is a tomb Of broken hearts, its oracle but words of doom! L.E. L.