III
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Fragments supposed to be parts of Otho
Once more descend
The shadows of my soul upon mankind,
For to those hearts with which they never blend,
Thoughts are but shadows which the flashing mind
From the swift clouds which track its flight of fire,
Casts on the gloomy world it leaves behind.
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