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Epigram I: To Stella

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

From the Greek of Plato.
Thou wert the morning star among the living,
Ere thy fair light had fled;--
Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving
New splendour to the dead.




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