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  • I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      'Epipsychidion', l.591.

  • I tremble in this factory of books. What love he must have lost to write so much.

    -A'Ghobhainn
      After seeing an exhibit of SirWalter Scott's manuscripts.'At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival', collected in Selected Poems (1985).

  • Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? 'The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.'

    -Tennyson
      'Tithonus' (revised1864),1.46^9.

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