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LINES (2) by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

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First Line: THAT TIME IS DEAD FOREVER, CHILD
Last Line: IN THE LIGHT OF LIFE'S DIM MORNING.
I

THAT time is dead forever, child,
Drowned, frozen, dead forever!
We look on the past,
And stare aghast
At the spectres wailing, pale and ghast,
Of hopes which thou and I beguiled
To death on life's dark river.

II

The stream we gazed on then, rolled by;
Its waves are unreturning;
But we yet stand
In a lone land,
Like tombs to mark the memory
Of hopes and fears, which fade and flee
In the light of life's dim morning.



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