“Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;
Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,
Frozen by distance.”

Address to Kilchurn Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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