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  • If mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream.

    -William Wordsworth
      'Elegiac Stanzas: suggested by a picture of Peele Castle in a storm', stanza 4 (published1807).

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