“As long as skies are blue, and fields are green,
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.”

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley , Adonaïs

St. XXI
Adonais (1821)

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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