Poem A Day

Fragment: 'The Viewless and Invisible Consequence'

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The viewless and invisible Consequence

Watches thy goings-out, and comings-in,

And...hovers o'er thy guilty sleep,

Unveiling every new-born deed, and thoughts

More ghastly than those deeds--

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