“A heaven so clear, an earth so calm,
So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air;
And, deepening still the dreamlike charm,
Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.”

—  Emily Brontë

Stanza vii.
A Little While, a Little While (1846)

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