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LINES. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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

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LINES.

    • Far, far away, O ye
    • Halcyons of memory,
    • Seek some far calmer nest
    • Than this abandoned breast;—
    • No news of your false spring
    • To my heart’s winter bring,
    • Once having gone, in vain
    • Ye come again.
    • Vultures, who build your bowers
    • High in the Future’s towers,
    • Withered hopes on hopes are spread,
    • Dying joys choked by the dead,
    • Will serve your beaks for prey
    • Many a day.