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O Thou Immortal Deity

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

O thou immortal deity
Whose throne is in the depth of human thought,
I do adjure thy power and thee
By all that man may be, by all that he is not,
By all that he has been and yet must be!




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