A Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley on laughter, pain, songs, and 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 : English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics & religion
Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Source: To a Skylark. Line 86.
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