Posted on Monday, 14 May 2012

"Lift Not the Painted Veil..."

sadness-or-euphoria:

by Percy Shelley

Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread, —- behind, lurk Fear
And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave
Their shadows, o’er the chasm, sightless and…

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