Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies – Satan, strew Roses.
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Showing all quotesBirth: | 18th August, 1841 |
Death: | 10th June, 1901 |
Nationality: | Scottish |
Profession: | Dramatist, Novelist, Poet |
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Robert Williams Buchanan was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. He was the son of Robert Buchanan, Owenite lecturer and journalist, and was born at Caverswall, Staffordshire, England. Buchanan senior, a native of Ayr, Scotland, lived for some years in Manchester, then moved to Glasgow, where Buchanan junior was educated, at the high school and the university, one of his fellow-students being the poet David Gray.
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