“Our sky has lost another star,
The earth has claimed its own,
And into dread eternity
A glorious one is gone.
He who could give departed things
So much of light and breath,
He is himself now with the past —
Gone forth from life to death.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(29th September 1832) On the death of Sir Walter Scott
The London Literary Gazette, 1832

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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