“Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sl…”

“Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Title: Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Context

Mont Blanc (1816), st. 3

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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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