I
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of To ——. 'One word is too often profaned'
One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it,
One feeling too falsely disdained
For thee to disdain it;
One hope is too like despair
For prudence to smother,
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.