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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Thoughts in Solitude
My thoughts arise and fade in solitude,
The verse that would invest them melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day:
How beautiful they were, how firm they stood,
Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl!
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1817
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