“Cease, cease, wayward Mortal! I dare not unveil The shadows …”

“Cease, cease, wayward Mortal! I dare not unveil The shadows that float o'er Eternity's vale; Nought waits for the good but a spirit of Love, That will hail their blest advent to regions above. For Love, Mortal, gleams through the gloom of my sway, And the shades which surround me fly fast at its ray.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Title: Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Type: reference · Secondary source
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Context

"Death" in an untitled dialogue (1809), in T. J. Hogg, Life of Shelley (1858), p. 197

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley

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