Experience Too Late
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
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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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on June 21, 2016
Modified on April 10, 2023
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