Governor Landon

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    Three years ago, also, when the Sims tragedy was acted, I said to myself, There is such an officer, if not such a man, as the Governor of Massachusetts,—what has he been about the last fortnight? Has he had as much as he could do to keep on the fence during this moral earthquake?... He could at least have resigned himself into fame.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Ah tell me not that memory
    Sheds gladness o’er the past;
    What is recalled by faded flowers
    Save that they did not last?
    —Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)