Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“ Be bright as the land of thy birth,
Where the sky has the clearest of sunlight,
And the richest of roses have birth!
May the storms which sweep there in darkness
Never roll o'er thy gentler way,
Nor cause to lament that we wished thee
Many happy returns of the day!⁠L. E. L.
⁠* The young lady, to whom these lines were addressed, was born in the East Indies. ”