“The moon looks
On many brooks,
"The brook can see no moon but this."”

—  Thomas Moore

While gazing on the Moon's Light.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779–1852

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