by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep!
One, pale as yonder waning moon
With lips of lurid blue;
The other, rosy as the morn
When…
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Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky
Thy wondrous worth proclaim, in…
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