A Dirge
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"A Dirge" is a poetic dirge composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley.[1] It was published posthumously in 1824 by his wife, Mary Shelley, in the collection Posthumous Poems.[2][3] The text has been set to music by Frank Bridge, Charles Ives, Ottorino Resphigi, Roy Ewing Agnew, and Benjamin Britten.
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