#title A 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
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Where Strength and Beauty, met together,
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Kindle their image like a star
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In a sea of glassy weather!
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Night, with all thy stars look down,—
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Darkness, weep thy holiest dew,—
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Never smiled the inconstant moon
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On a pair so true.
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Let eyes not see their own delight;—
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Haste, swift Hour, and thy flight
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Oft renew.
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2.

Fairies, sprites, and angels, keep her!
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Holy stars, permit no wrong!
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And return to wake the sleeper,
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Dawn,—ere it be long!
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O joy! O fear! what will be done
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In the absence of the sun!
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Come along!

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