“I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet, keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.”

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Sudden Light http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/roset03.html#1, st. 1 (1881).

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English poet, illustrator, painter and translator 1828–1882

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