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1792–1822

FRAGMENT: APOSTROPHE TO SILENCE.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Silence! Oh, well are Death and Sleep and Thou Three brethren named, the guardians gloomy-winged Of one abyss, where life, and truth, and joy Are swallowed up — yet spare me, Spirit, pity me,

Until the sounds I hear become my soul, And it has left these faint and weary limbs, To track along the lapses of the air This wandering melody until it rests

Among lone mountains in some...

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