CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION

Whether the Sensitive Plant, or thatWhich within its boughs like a spirit satEre its outward form had known decay,Now felt this change, I cannot say.

Whether the Sensitive Plant, or thatWhich within its boughs like a spirit satEre its outward form had known decay,Now felt this change, I cannot say.

Whether the Sensitive Plant, or thatWhich within its boughs like a spirit satEre its outward form had known decay,Now felt this change, I cannot say.

Whether the Sensitive Plant, or that

Which within its boughs like a spirit sat

Ere its outward form had known decay,

Now felt this change, I cannot say.

Whether that lady’s gentle mindNo longer with the form combinedWhich scattered love, as stars do light,Found sadness, where it left delight,

Whether that lady’s gentle mindNo longer with the form combinedWhich scattered love, as stars do light,Found sadness, where it left delight,

Whether that lady’s gentle mindNo longer with the form combinedWhich scattered love, as stars do light,Found sadness, where it left delight,

Whether that lady’s gentle mind

No longer with the form combined

Which scattered love, as stars do light,

Found sadness, where it left delight,

I dare not guess; but in this lifeOf error, ignorance, and strife,Where nothing is, but all things seem,And we the shadows of the dream,

I dare not guess; but in this lifeOf error, ignorance, and strife,Where nothing is, but all things seem,And we the shadows of the dream,

I dare not guess; but in this lifeOf error, ignorance, and strife,Where nothing is, but all things seem,And we the shadows of the dream,

I dare not guess; but in this life

Of error, ignorance, and strife,

Where nothing is, but all things seem,

And we the shadows of the dream,

It is a modest creed, and yetPleasant if one considers it,To own that death itself must be,Like all the rest, a mockery.

It is a modest creed, and yetPleasant if one considers it,To own that death itself must be,Like all the rest, a mockery.

It is a modest creed, and yetPleasant if one considers it,To own that death itself must be,Like all the rest, a mockery.

It is a modest creed, and yet

Pleasant if one considers it,

To own that death itself must be,

Like all the rest, a mockery.

That garden sweet, that lady fair,And all sweet shapes and odours there,In truth have never past away:’Tis we, ’tis ours, are changed; not they.

That garden sweet, that lady fair,And all sweet shapes and odours there,In truth have never past away:’Tis we, ’tis ours, are changed; not they.

That garden sweet, that lady fair,And all sweet shapes and odours there,In truth have never past away:’Tis we, ’tis ours, are changed; not they.

That garden sweet, that lady fair,

And all sweet shapes and odours there,

In truth have never past away:

’Tis we, ’tis ours, are changed; not they.

For love, and beauty, and delight,There is no death nor change: their mightExceeds our organs, which endureNo light, being themselves obscure.

For love, and beauty, and delight,There is no death nor change: their mightExceeds our organs, which endureNo light, being themselves obscure.

For love, and beauty, and delight,There is no death nor change: their mightExceeds our organs, which endureNo light, being themselves obscure.

For love, and beauty, and delight,

There is no death nor change: their might

Exceeds our organs, which endure

No light, being themselves obscure.

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