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TO - (1) by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

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First Line: MUSIC, WHEN SOFT VOICES DIE
Last Line: LOVE ITSELF SHALL SLUMBER ON.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; LOVE; MEMORY; MOURNING; MUSIC & MUSICIANS; ROSES; BEREAVEMENT;
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory,--
Odors, when sweet violets sicken
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose-leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.


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