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" How wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean’s wave It blushes o'er the world; Yet both so passing wonderful! "

Percy Bysshe Shelley , Queen Mab, a Philosophical Poem, with Notes. [Reputed to Have Been Given by the Author to W. Francis. Wanting the Title-Leaf, Dedication and Part of the Last Leaf].


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Percy Bysshe Shelley quote : How wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean’s wave It blushes o'er the world; Yet both so passing wonderful!