“Across the silent stream
Where the dream-shadows go,
From the dim blue Hill of Dream
I have heard the west wind blow.”

— William Sharp (writer)

From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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