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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Happiness, Song, Laughter
"To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Laughter, Rain, Clouds
1819 'The Cloud'.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Happiness, Laughter, Lying

I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Laughter, Mankind, Regeneration
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.470, JHU Press

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