We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and
quiver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon
Night closes round, and they are lost for ever

–“Mutability,”
Percy Bysshe Shelley

What is the effect of the words speed, gleam, and quiver?

What idea about humans is expressed through these words?

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