<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478302" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who Live</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lift not the painted veil which those who live <br>Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there, <br>And it but mimic all we would believe <br>With colours idly spread,-behind, lurk Fear <br>And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave <br>Their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and drear. <br>I knew one who had lifted it-he sought, <br>For his lost heart was tender, things to love, <br>But found them not, alas! nor was there aught <br>The world contains, the which he could approve. <br>Through the unheeding many he did move, <br>A splendour among shadows, a bright blot <br>Upon this gloomy scene, a Spirit that strove <br>For truth, and like the Preacher found it not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Percy+Bysshe+Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478302" data-title="Sonnet: Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who Live de Percy Bysshe Shelley" data-description="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 Their shadows, o'er t..."></div> </div> </div>

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