God Scatters Beauty

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.

About Walter Savage Landor

Romantic-era poet and prose writer known for elegant, epigrammatic verse and imaginary conversations.

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