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A FRAGMENT
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 / Sunk powerless, even as anger falls aside, / And withers on the breast of peaceful love, / Thou didst receive that belt of pines, that fledged / The hills that watch'd thee, as Love watcheth Love, / In thine own essence, and delight thyself / To make it wholly thine on sunny days.