I did groan
To think that a most unambitious slave,
Like thou, shouldst dance and revel on the grave
Of Liberty.
(Feelings Of A Republican On The Fall Of Bonaparte)
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Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,Sweet though in sadness.
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And the crimson pall of eve may fall
From the depth of Heaven above,
With wings folded I rest, on mine aery nest,
As still as a brooding dove.
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Day and night, day and night,
He was my breath and life and light,
For three short years, which soon were passed.
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Great and mean
Meet massed in death, who lends what life must borrow.
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Depart not as thy shadow came,
Depart not -- lest the grave should be,
Like life and fear, a dark reality.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
My hopes were once like fire;
I loved, and I believed that life was love.
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