Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Earth