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God Scatters Beauty

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God Scatters Beauty by Walter Savage Landor

 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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