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Originally posted by Haunted
This is what I want on my tombstone. It's from Shelley
"As the earth when leaves are dead/
As the night when sleep is spead/,
As the heart when joy is fled/,
I am left lone, alone."
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I love Shelley, I have a booklet of a bunch of his poetry. This is "Lament", a short one but I think its really powerful for doing so much with such little space.
O world! O life! O time!
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling at that where I had stood before;
When will return the glory of your prime?
No more--Oh, never more!
Out of the day and night
A joy has taken flight;
Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,
Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight
No more--Oh, never more!