Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked, melancholy isles. Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge. Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.
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- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: british
- Born: April 21, 1816
- Died: March 31, 1855
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