The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Life rounded with Sleep

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

FRAGMENT: LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, P. W., 1839, 2nd ed.]

The babe is at peace within the womb;
The corpse is at rest within the tomb:
 We begin in what we end.