“To that high Capital, where kingly Death
Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay,
He came.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley , Adonaïs

St. VI
Adonais (1821)

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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“To that high Capital, where kingly DeathKeeps his pale court in beauty and decay,He came.”

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“To that high Capital, where kingly Death
Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay,
He came.”