The fountains mingle with the river

and the river with the ocean,

The winds of heaven mix forever

with a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single;

All things by a law divine

In one spirit meet and mingle.

Why not I with mine?__


See the mountains kiss high Heaven

And the waves clasp one another;

No sister-flower is forgiven

If it disdained its brother;

and the sunlight clasps the earth

And the moonbeams kiss the sea:

What are all these kissings worth

If thou kiss not me?



Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822...
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