by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Translation
Some say that
Language: English  after the English
Some say that gleams of a remoter world visit the soul in sleep— that death is slumber. Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled the veil of life and death? Far, far above, Mont Blanc appears.
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- a text in English by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), no title, appears in Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni, no. 3
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This text (or a part of it) is used in a work
- by Judith Bingham (b. 1952), "Gleams of a remoter world", 1997. [chorus]
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This text was added to the website: 2016-08-16
Line count: 9
Word count: 34