Herbert Hall Turner (13 August 1861, Leeds – 20 August 1930, Stockholm) was a British astronomer and seismologist.
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“life is straight,
Straight as a line, and ever tends to Thee,”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Sweet death, small son, our instrument
Of immortality,
Your cries and hungers document
Our bodily decay.”
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“O shining Popocatapetl, It was thy magic hour:
The houses, people, traffic seemed
Thin fading dreams by day;
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They had stolen my soul away!”
—Walter James Turner (1889–1946)