Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.Percy Bysshe Shelley
His wan eyes
Gaze on the empty scene as vacantly
As ocean's moon looks on the moon in heaven.
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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
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When the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead --
When the cloud is scattered,
The rainbow's glory is shed.
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Mont Blanc yet gleams on high:-the power is there,
The still and solemn power of many sights,
And many sounds, and much of life and death.
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Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?
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