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Love's Philosophy
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
The fountains
mingle with the river,
And the rivers
with the ocean;
The winds
of heaven mix forever,
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?
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