Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quote
“Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.”
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