What is Freedom? — ye can tell That which slavery is, too w… - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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What is Freedom? — ye can tell That which slavery is, too well — For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

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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Fear not the future, weep not for the past.

Thou dirge Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre, Vaulted with all thy congregated might.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

What is Freedom? — ye can tell That which slavery is, too well — For its very name has grown To an echo of your own. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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