The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Sufficient unto the day

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FRAGMENT: SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY

[Published by Dr. Garnett, Relics of Shelley, 1862.]

Is not to-day enough? Why do I peer
Into the darkness of the day to come?
Is not to-morrow even as yesterday?
And will the day that follows change thy doom?
Few flowers grow upon thy wintry way; 5
And who waits for thee in that cheerless home
Whence thou hast fled, whither thou must return
Charged with the load that makes thee faint and mourn?