#title A Lament
#subtitle (O world! O life! O time!)
#author Percy Bysshe Shelley
#SORTtopics poetry
#date 1821
#source Retrieved on 2020-03-14 from [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Lament_(O_world!_O_life!_O_time!)][en.wikisource.org]]
#lang en


O world! O life! O time!
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On whose last steps I climb,
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Trembling at that where I had stood before;
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When will return the glory of your prime?
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No more — Oh, never more!
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Out of the day and night
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A joy has taken flight;
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Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,
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Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight
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No more — Oh, never more!