Yes! all is past–swift time has fled away, Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind; How long will horror nerve this frame of clay? I'm dead, and lingers yet my soul behind. Oh! powerful Fate, revoke thy deadly spell, And yet that may not ever, ever be, Heaven will not smile upon the work of Hell;Ah! no, for Heaven cannot smile on me; Fate, envious Fate, has sealed my wayward destiny. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The line, “Yes! all is past: swift time has fled away; yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind; how long will horror nerve this frame of clay? I’m dead, and lingers yet my soul behind. Oh! powerful Fate, revoke thy deadly spell, and yet that may not ever, ever be, Heaven will not smile upon the work of Hell; Ah! no, for Heaven cannot smile on me; Fate, envious Fate, has sealed my wayward destiny.” is a verse by John Keats. It is a part of his poem “Ode to a Nightingale.” While the poem itself does not specifically refer to any person experiencing great tragedy or loss, but rather refers to the idea of mortality and the will to live on.

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