. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... PORTAL as of shadowy adamantStands yawning on the highwayof the lifeWhich we all tread, a cavern hugeand gaunt;Around it rages an unceasing strifeOf shadows, like the restless clouds that hauntThe gap of some cleft mountain, lifted highInto the whirlwinds of the upper sky. many pass it by with careless tread, Not knowing that a shadowy . .Tracks every traveller even to where the deadWait peacefully for their companion new;273 Poems Written in 1820 But others, by more curious humour led. Pause to examine, — these are very they lea

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. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... PORTAL as of shadowy adamantStands yawning on the highwayof the lifeWhich we all tread, a cavern hugeand gaunt;Around it rages an unceasing strifeOf shadows, like the restless clouds that hauntThe gap of some cleft mountain, lifted highInto the whirlwinds of the upper sky. many pass it by with careless tread, Not knowing that a shadowy . .Tracks every traveller even to where the deadWait peacefully for their companion new;273 Poems Written in 1820 But others, by more curious humour led. Pause to examine, — these are very they learn little there, except to knowThat shadows follow them whereer they go. To. USIC, when soft voices in the memory —Odours, when sweet violetssicken. Live within the sense they leaves, when the rose is heaped for the beloveds bed;And so thy thoughts, when thou art itself shall slumber on. 274

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