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TO SILENCE; A FRAGMENT by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

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First Line: SILENCE! OH, WELL ARE DEATH AND SLEEP AND THOU
Last Line: AMONG LONE MOUNTAINS IN SOME ...
Subject(s): SILENCE;

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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