“The azure lake is argent now
Beneath the pale moonshine:
I seek a sign of hope in heaven:
Fair Polestar! thou are mine.
A thousand other beacons blaze;
I follow thee alone…”

—  Francis Turner Palgrave

"Midnight At Geneva".

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English poet and critic 1824–1897

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