“She gazed, although she knew not why,
Where ocean seemed another sky.
The moon looked down upon the deep,
Till in that deep it seemed to be;
Scarce might the eye the image keep
Of which was sky, and which was sea.”

All from The Vow of the Peacock - First Canto
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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