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" vow'd that I would dedicate my powers
To thee and thine: have I not kept the vow?
With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now
I call the phantoms of a thousand hours
Each from his voiceless grave: they have in vision'd bowers
Of studious zeal or love's delight
Outwatch'd with me the envious night:
They know that never joy illum'd my brow
Unlink'd with hope that thou wouldst free
This world from its dark slavery,
That thou, O awful LOVELINESS,
Wouldst give whate'er these words cannot express. "

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Percy Bysshe Shelley quote : vow'd that I would dedicate my powers<br /> To thee and thine: have I not kept the vow?<br /> With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now<br />I call the phantoms of a thousand hours<br />Each from his voiceless grave: they have in vision'd bowers<br /> Of studious zeal or love's delight<br /> Outwatch'd with me the envious night:<br />They know that never joy illum'd my brow<br /> Unlink'd with hope that thou wouldst free<br /> This world from its dark slavery,<br /> That thou, O awful LOVELINESS,<br />Wouldst give whate'er these words cannot express.