by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
The fountains mingle with the River
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The fountains mingle with the River And the Rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine? - See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?
L. Lehrman sets lines 5-8, 1-4, 9-16
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- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), "Love's philosophy" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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