“The pale stars are gone!
For the sun, their swift shepherd,
To their folds them compelling,
In the depths of the dawn,
Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee
Beyond his blue dwelling,
As fawns flee the leopard.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley , Prometheus Unbound

Voice of Unseen Spirits, Act IV, l. 1
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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“The pale stars are gone!For the sun, their swift shepherd,To their folds them compelling,In the depths of the dawn,Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the fleeBeyond his blue dwelling,As fawns flee the leopard.”

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“The pale stars are gone!
For the sun, their swift shepherd,
To their folds them compelling,
In the depths of the dawn,
Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee
Beyond his blue dwelling,
As fawns flee the leopard.”