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" One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it,
One feeling too falsely disdain'd
For thee to disdain it.
One hope too like dispair
For prudence to smother,

I can give not what men call love:
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
And heaven rejects not:
The desire of the moth for the star,
The devotion of something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow? "

Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Percy Bysshe Shelley quote : One word is too often profaned<br />For me to profane it,<br />One feeling too falsely disdain'd<br />For thee to disdain it.<br />One hope too like dispair<br />For prudence to smother,<br /><br />I can give not what men call love:<br />But wilt thou accept not<br />The worship the heart lifts above<br />And heaven rejects not:<br />The desire of the moth for the star,<br />The devotion of something afar<br />From the sphere of our sorrow?