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EXPERIENCE TOO LATE by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

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First Line: IT IS THE PAST THAT MAKETH MY DESPAIR
Last Line: LOATHED, YET DESPISED, WHY MUST I THINK OF IT?
IT is the past that maketh my despair;
The dark, the sad, the irrevocable past.
Alas! why should our lot in life be made,
Before we know that life? Experience comes,
But comes too late. If I could now recall
All that I now regret, how different
Would be my choice! at best a choice of ill;
But better than my miserable past.
Loathed, yet despised, why must I think of it?



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