#title Lines
#subtitle "That time is dead for ever, child"
#author Percy Bysshe Shelley
#SORTtopics poetry
#date 1824
#source https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lines_(Shelley,_%22That_time_is_dead_for_ever,_child%22)
#lang en
#pubdate 2020-03-15T00:38:04



I

That time is dead for ever, child!
<br>
Drowned, frozen, dead for ever!
<br>
⁠We look on the past
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⁠And stare aghast
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At the spectres wailing, pale and ghast,⁠
<br>
Of hopes which thou and I beguiled
<br>
⁠To death on life's dark river.

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II

The stream we gazed on then rolled by;
<br>
Its waves are unreturning;
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⁠But we yet stand⁠
<br>
⁠In a lone land,
<br>
Like tombs to mark the memory
<br>
Of hopes and fears, which fade and flee
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⁠In the light of life's dim morning.