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Not by the sea, but somewhere in the hills, / Not by the sea, but in the uplands surely / There must be rest where a dim pool demurely / Watches all night the stern slow-moving skies;
Not by the sea, that never was appeased, / Not by the sea, whose immemorial longing / Shames the tired earth where even longing dies, / Not by the sea that bore Iseult and Helen, / But in a dark green hollow of the hills / There must be sleep, even for sleepless eyes.