“A light is gone from yonder sky,
A star has left its sphere;
The beautiful--and do they die
In yon bright world as here?
Will that star leave a lonely place,
A darkness on the night?—
No; few will miss its lovely face,
And none think heaven less bright!”

The Lost Star from The Literary Souvenir, 1828
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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