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A BRIDAL SONG. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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Posthumous Poems (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824).

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A BRIDAL SONG.

    • The golden gates of sleep unbar
    • Where strength and beauty met together,
    • Kindle their image like a star
    • In a sea of glassy weather.
    • Night, with all thy stars look down,—
    • Darkness, weep thy holiest dew,—
    • Never smiled the inconstant moon
    • On a pair so true.
    • Let eyes not see their own delight;—
    • Haste, swift Hour, and thy flight
    • Oft renew.
    • Fairies, sprites, and angels keep her!
    • Holy stars, permit no wrong!
    • And return to wake the sleeper,
    • Dawn,—ere it be long.
    • Oh joy! oh fear! what will be done
    • In the absence of the sun!
    • Come along!