II

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of An Allegory

And many pass it by with careless tread,

Not knowing that a shadowy...

Tracks every traveller even to where the dead

Wait peacefully for their companion new;

But others, by more curious humour led,

Pause to examine;—these are very few,

And they learn little there, except to know

That shadows follow them where'er they go.

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