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

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

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A LAMENT.

    • Oh, world! oh, life! oh, 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—O, 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—O, never more!