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As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sea, Voice, Vision
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.387, Wordsworth Editions
As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.