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On Fanny Godwin

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Her voice did quiver as we parted,
Yet knew I not that heart was broken
From which it came, and I departed
Heeding not the words then spoken.
Misery--O Misery,
This world is all too wide for thee.




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