II

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Magnetic Lady to her Patient

'Sleep, sleep on! I love thee not;

But when I think that he

Who made and makes my lot

As full of flowers as thine of weeds,

Might have been lost like thee;

And that a hand which was not mine

Might then have charmed his agony

As I another's—my heart bleeds

For thine.

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