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Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

A Lament

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

O WORLD! O life! O time!

On whose last steps I climb,

Trembling at that where I had stood before;

When will return the glory of your prime?

No more—Oh, never more!

Out of the day and night

A joy has taken flight;

Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,

Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight

No more—Oh, never more!