Living

God Scatters Beauty as He Scatters Flowers

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)

Living

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.

MLA

Landor, Walter Savage. “God Scatters Beauty as He Scatters Flowers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/634/.

Chicago

Landor, Walter Savage. “God Scatters Beauty as He Scatters Flowers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/634/.

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