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Here far away, seen from the topmost cliff,

Filling with purple gloom the vacancies
Between the tufted hills, the sloping seas
Hung in mid-heaven, and half-way down rare sails,
White as white clouds, floated from sky to sky.
Oh! pleasant breast of waters, quiet bay,
Like to a quiet mind in the loud world,
Where the chafed breakers of the outer sea
Sank powerless, as anger falls aside
And withers on the beast of peaceful love;
Thou dids't receive the growth of pines that fledged

The hills that watch'd thee, as Love watcheth Love,