Percy Bysshe Shelley


                  A Lament

    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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