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1792–1822

A LAMENT.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before; When will return the glory of your prime?

No more — Oh, never more! Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight; Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,

Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more — Oh, never more!

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