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Quotes › Authors › P › Percy Bysshe Shelley › We look before and after, And pine for what is not
  • We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley: We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)
    1586
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