O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea…

John Keats
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O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth! ✨ Harry Buxton Forman, John Keats (1817). The complete works of John Keats, p.86
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