“O beauty of the midnight skies!
O mystery of each distant star!
O dreaming hours, whose magic lies
In rest and calm, with Day afar!
Thanks for the higher moods that wake
Our thoughtful and immortal part!—
Out on our life, could we not make
A spiritual temple of the heart?”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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