"He came, and no man knew it; no man knew The wondrous boon to Scotland given; That there—beneath that grim and wintry blue— A glorious Poet, strong and true, Had newly dropp'd from heaven!"
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John Stanyan Bigg
John Stanyan Bigg (1828–1865) was an English poet of the Spasmodic School.
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