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by Percy Bysshe Shelley
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Magnetic Lady to her Patient
The spell is done. How feel you now?'
'Better—Quite well,' replied
The sleeper.—'What would do
You good when suffering and awake?
What cure your head and side?—'
'What would cure, that would kill me, Jane:
And as I must on earth abide
Awhile, yet tempt me not to break
My chain.'