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Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day

Percy Bysshe Shelley·1792–1822
Lines:8Movement:Romanticism
Is not to-day enough? Why do I peerInto the darkness of the day to come?Is not to-morrow even as yesterday?And will the day that follows change thy doom?Few flowers grow upon thy wintry way;And who waits for thee in that cheerless homeWhence thou hast fled, whither thou must returnCharged with the load that makes thee faint and mourn?