As I, when this sweet day is gone,

Which my lost heart, too soon grown old,

Insults with this untimely moan; 40

They might lament—for I am one

Whom men love not, and yet regret;

Unlike this day, which, when the sun

Shall on its stainless glory set,

Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet. 45

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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