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John Leyden
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“Alas! that Scottish maid should sing The combat where her lover fell! That Scottish Bard should wake the string, The triumph of our foes to tell!”
John Leyden (1775–1811) said by 1811 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode on Visiting Flodden", quoted as an epigram in the front matter of Walter Scott's Marmion, ed. Thomas Bayne (Oxford, 1889)
“In Vishnu’s lotus-foot alone Confide! His power shall ne’er decay, When tumbles every earthly throne, And mortal glory fades away.”
John Leyden (1775–1811) first seen 1805 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Excerpted from John Leyden's 1805 translation of a sorrowful Dirge on Tippoo Sultan from the Kanara, from popular local Kannada songs.