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1792–1822

A FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild; Softest grave of a thousand fears, Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child,

Is laid asleep in flowers.

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