Death & Dying
Epitaph
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Death & Dying
These are two friends whose lives were undivided;
So let their memory be, now they have glided
Under the grave; let not their bones be parted,
For their two hearts in life were single-hearted.
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Codex Note
Written 1822. Published 1824.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Epitaph.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/214/.
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