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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Thomas Campbell
Born: July 27, 1777
Died: June 15, 1844 (aged 66)
Bio: Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing especially with human affairs.
Known for:
- Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)
- The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell (1811)
- Frederick The Great And His Times (1842)
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