446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years
The History of Literature
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You Have a Perfect Day, but You're Going to Die
The third stanza helps us do that, even though it might not seem that way at first. Seize the day, experience the joy within your heart as my yoga instructor says in her accent advice,. Make this practice an offering. Celebrate. We rest and a dream has power to poison sleep. Why poison? A dream hasPower to make sleep good, too? To sweeten sleep. And it says we rise. One wandering thought pollutes the day. Why pollute?Why not say one wandering thought cleanses the day because I think Shelley is saying even the bad stuff is important to note. You have a perfect day? Well, yes, but you're going to die
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