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THE WORLD’S WANDERERS. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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

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THE WORLD’S WANDERERS.

    • Tell me, thou star, whose wings of light
    • Speed thee in thy fiery flight,
    • In what cavern of the night
    • Will thy pinions close now?
    • Tell me, moon, thou pale and grey
    • Pilgrim of heaven’s homeless way,
    • In what depth of night or day
    • Seekest thou repose now?
    • Weary wind, who wanderest
    • Like the world’s rejected guest,
    • Hast thou still some secret nest
    • On the tree or billow?