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Fragment: Wedded Souls

Percy Bysshe Shelley·1792–1822
Lines:12Movement:Romanticism
I am as a spirit who has dweltWithin his heart of hearts, and I have feltHis feelings, and have thought his thoughts, and knownThe inmost converse of his soul, the toneUnheard but in the silence of his blood,When all the pulses in their multitudeImage the trembling calm of summer seas.I have unlocked the golden melodiesOf his deep soul, as with a master-key,And loosened them and bathed myself therein--Even as an eagle in a thunder-mistClothing his wings with lightning.