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Dar'st thou amid the varied To live alone, an isolated thing?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  3. You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, …
  4. Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven, Although on earth 'tis planted, Where its honours blow, While by earth's slaves the leaves are riven …
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  6. Here I swear, and as I break my oath may Infinity Eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only po…
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