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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone, And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl; The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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