God Scatters Beauty

Portrait of Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

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.

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