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All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  1. To know nor faith, nor love, nor law, to be Omnipotent but friendless, is to reign.
  2. All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. Like the wide heaven, the all-susta…
  3. He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see, what things they be; But…
  4. Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
  5. Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though…
  6. Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The lof…
  7. Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes; And yet I pity those they torture not.
  8. The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-ec…

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  • spirit
  • evil
  • integrity
  • slavery

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