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Its rays were repeated from the far-distant sea by the lightship lying moored over the mysterious Shambles quicksand, which brought tamelessness and domesticity into due position as balanced opposites.

From The Well-Beloved by Hardy, Thomas

From thee this tamelessness of heart— From thee—nay, wherefore dost thou start?—-

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley