Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

““Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.””

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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