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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Hundred
Lights
Turn
Temples
Beauty
Burn
Scatters
Turns
Knees
Shrine
Light
Flowers
Shrines
Earth
Tells
Knee
Every
Wide
Bend
Flower
Temple

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