“Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, E…”

“Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can rend the shrine In which its vermeil splendours shine.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Source

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

Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" in Rossetti (1870), p. 525

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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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