The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed t…

Virginia Woolf
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The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). To the Lighthouse, p.112, Virginia Woolf
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