At Loschwitz above the city
The air is sunny and chill;
The birch-trees and the pine-trees
Grow thick upon the hill.
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Despite her good literary writings and popular poems, she was not haapy: Despite many friends and an active literary life, Levy had suffered from episodes of major depression
from an early age which, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide on September 10,1889, at the age of twenty-seven, by inhaling carbon monoxide. Oscar Wilde wrote an obituary for her in Women's World in which he praised her gifts.