“Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.”

— Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Canto III, stanza 24.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771–1832

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