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1792–1822

TO MARY —.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

O Mary dear, that you were here With your brown eyes bright and clear. And your sweet voice, like a bird Singing love to its lone mate

In the ivy bower disconsolate; Voice the sweetest ever heard! And your brow more... Than the... sky

Of this azure Italy. Mary dear, come to me soon, I am not well whilst thou art far; As sunset to the sphered moon,

As twilight to the western star, Thou, beloved, art to me. O Mary dear, that you were here; The Castle echo whispers‘ Here!’

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