We Are as Clouds That Veil the Midnight Moon — Percy Shelley Quote Mug

Early. Nobody else is up. The sky over the rooftops is going from gray to pink.

"We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon…"
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Mutability," from Alastor, and Other Poems, 1816. We check every line against a primary source.

The poem's last line: "Nought may endure but Mutability."

He closed that opening line with a semicolon. The trailing dots are ours, so the thought drifts off the mug.

Drink it while it's hot.

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