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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Ears
Wheel
Attentive
Pearly
Ocean
Shake
Abode
Murmurs
Sun
Apply
Porch
Lustre
Within
Shakes
Palace
Chariot
Remember
Wheels
Remembers
Midway
Stands
Palaces
Chariots
Sinuous
Wave
August
Awakens
Abodes
Lips
Shells
Hue
Imbibed

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