| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792–1822 |
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| 609. The Moon |
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AND, like a dying lady lean and pale, | |
| Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil, | |
| Out of her chamber, led by the insane | |
| And feeble wanderings of her fading brain, | |
| The mood arose up in the murky east, | 5 |
| A white and shapeless mass. | |
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Art thou pale for weariness | |
| Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, | |
| Wandering companionless | |
| Among the stars that have a different birth, | 10 |
| And ever changing, like a joyless eye | |
| That finds no object worth its constancy? | |
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