I don't know how anyone could live in Carmel and not be a poet, actually. Gorgeous, gorgeous place - one of my favorites on the planet.

Incidentally, you can put additional spaces in by using the HTML encoding of the character, which is " "

Sweet chimes! that in the loneliness of night
Salute the passing hour, and in the dark
And silent chambers of the household mark
The movements of the myriad orbs of light!
Through my closed eyelids, by the inner sight,
I see the constellations in the arc
Of their great circles moving on, and hark!
I almost hear them singing in their flight.
Better than sleep it is to lie awake,
O'er-canopied by the vast starry dome
Of the immeasurable sky; to feel
The slumbering world sink under us, and make
Hardly an eddy,--a mere rush of foam
On the great sea beneath a sinking keel.

(If someone can tell me how to make a poem appear properly structured on this site, I would be grateful. Spaces at the front of a line don't appear, and if I put extra line separations in, it puts strange half-line spacings in immediately before them - like it does with the final line of the poem above.)