#title A Bridal Song
#LISTtitle Bridal Song
#author Percy Bysshe Shelley
#SORTtopics poetry, marriage
#date 1824
#source Retrieved on 2020-03-14 from [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Bridal_Song][en.wikisource.org]]
#lang en
*** 1.
The golden gates of Sleep unbar
Where Strength and Beauty, met together,
Kindle their image like a star
In a sea of glassy weather!
Night, with all thy stars look down,β
Darkness, weep thy holiest dew,β
Never smiled the inconstant moon
On a pair so true.
Let eyes not see their own delight;β
Haste, swift Hour, and thy flight
Oft renew.
*** 2.
Fairies, sprites, and angels, keep her!
Holy stars, permit no wrong!
And return to wake the sleeper,
Dawn,βere it be long!
O joy! O fear! what will be done
In the absence of the sun!
Come along!