II

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of 'When a lover clasps his fairest'

When a mother clasps her child,

Watch till dusty Death has piled

His cold ashes on the clay;

She has loved it many a day—

She remains,—it fades away.

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