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Circumstance

Percy Bysshe Shelley·1792–1822
Lines:9Movement:Romanticism
FROM THE GREEK. A man who was about to hang himself,Finding a purse, then threw away his rope;The owner, coming to reclaim his pelf,The halter found; and used it. So is HopeChanged for Despair--one laid upon the shelf,We take the other. Under Heaven's high copeFortune is God--all you endure and doDepends on circumstance as much as you.