One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One fe… - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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About Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English romantic poets, widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language; husband of Mary Shelley.

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Alternative Names: Percy Byssche Shelley • Percy Shelley • Shelli Persi Bish

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The indignity of your fate is the will of one more powerful.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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