No More Learning

; dewdrops 1870.
_120 languished B. ; vanished 1870.
_121 path, as on [bare] B. ; footprints, as on 1870.
_122 silver B. ; silence 1870.
_130 And in the moonless nights 1870; cancelled, B. dun B. ;
dim 1870.
_131 Heaved 1870; cancelled, B. wide B. ;
the 1870. star-impearled B. ; omitted, 1870.
_132 Starting from dreams 1870; cancelled for He B.
_137 autumn B. ; autumnal 1870.
_138 or B. ; and 1870.
_155 pennon B. ; pennons 1870.
_158 athwart B. ; across 1870.

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SONNET.

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.
Our text is that of the "Poetical Works", 1839. ]

Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread,--behind, lurk Fear
And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave _5
Their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and drear.
I knew one who had lifted it--he sought,
For his lost heart was tender, things to love
But found them not, alas! nor was there aught
The world contains, the which he could approve.