Wandering companionless,

Among the stars that have a different birth,—

And ever changing, like a joyless eye 5

That finds no object worth its constancy?

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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If I had thought thou could’st have died,

I might not weep for thee;

But I forgot, when by thy side,

That thou could’st mortal be.