Shelley is also sometimes published under the title "Mutability".this following poem
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The flower that smiles today
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- Tomorrow dies;
All that we wish to stay,
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- Tempts and then flies.
What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night,
- Brief even as bright.
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Virtue, how frail it is!
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- Friendship how rare!
Love, how it sells poor bliss
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- For proud despair!
But we, though soon they fall, Survive their joy and all
- Which ours we call.
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Whilst skies are blue and bright,
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- Whilst flowers are gay,
Whilst eyes that change ere night
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- Make glad the day,
Whilst yet the calm hours creep, Dream thou - and from thy sleep
- Then wake to weep