Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory –
Odors, when sweet violets sicken.
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed –
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
(1792-1822)
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