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Thomas Campbell
(27 Jul 1777 - 15 Jun 1844)
Scottish poet.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Campbell (2)
O leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.
— Thomas Campbell
'The Beech-Tree's Petition' (Written in Germany, 1800. First published in The Morning Chronicle). The Pleasures of Hope: with Other Poems and The Pleasures of Memory (1804), 97.
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O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
To waft us home the message of despair?
— Thomas Campbell
'Pleasures of Hope', Part 2. In Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, et al, The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White (1830), 121.
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