#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,β€”ere it be long! O joy! O fear! what will be done In the absence of the sun! Come along!