The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . Fragments Connected withEpipsychidion. ERE, my dear friend, is a new bookfor you ;I have already dedicated twoTo other friends, one female andone male,—What you are is a thing that I must veil;What can this be to those who praise or rail ?I never was attached to that great sectWhose doctrine is that each one should selectOut of the world a mistress or a friend,And all the rest, though fair and wise, com-mendTo cold oblivion — though tis in the codeOf modern morals, and the beaten road 40 Fragments with Epipsychidion Which those poor slaves with
The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . Fragments Connected withEpipsychidion. ERE, my dear friend, is a new bookfor you ;I have already dedicated twoTo other friends, one female andone male,—What you are is a thing that I must veil;What can this be to those who praise or rail ?I never was attached to that great sectWhose doctrine is that each one should selectOut of the world a mistress or a friend,And all the rest, though fair and wise, com-mendTo cold oblivion — though tis in the codeOf modern morals, and the beaten road 40 Fragments with Epipsychidion Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps treadWho travel to their home among the deadBy the broad highway of the world —and soWith one sad friend, and many a jealous foe,The dreariest and the longest journey go. Free love has this, different from gold and to divide is not to take ocean, which the general north wind breaksInto ten thousand waves, and each one makesA mirror of the moon — like some great did distort whatever form might into fragments by a pla
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