II

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

The swallow summer comes again—

The owlet night resumes her reign—

But the wild-swan youth is fain

To fly with thee, false as thou.—

My heart each day desires the morrow;

Sleep itself is turned to sorrow;

Vainly would my winter borrow

Sunny leaves from any bough,

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