Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
The Indian Serenade http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_indian_serenade.html (1819), st. 1
“Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet,
From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,
Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so,
Who art not missed by any that entreat.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 247.
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