The child was slender as fleeting hope.

About This Quote

This is a poem from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s "Ode to a Nightingale." In it, Shelley speaks of a little bird who is only too happy to sing at the slightest chance that a boy may see him. The thought of a boy seeing him is enough to make a little bird's heart soar, and he sings with joyous abandon.

Source: The Exorcist

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