Ave An Ode for the Centenary of the Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelly August 4 179
Ave An Ode for the Centenary of the Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelly August 4 179
Charles George Douglas Roberts
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The domes of Pisa and her towers superb, The myrtles and the ilexes that sigh O'er San Giuliano, where no jars disturb The lonely aziola's evening cry, The Serchio's sun-kissed waters, — these conspired With Plato's theme occult, with Dante's calm Rapture of mystic love, and so inspired Thy soul's espousal psalm, A strain of such elect and pure intent It breathes of a diviner element. J 9 XX. Thou on whose lips the word of Love became A rapt evangel to assuage all wrong, Not Love alone, but the... austerer name Of Death engaged the splendours of thy song. The luminous grief, the spacious consolation Of thy supreme lament, that mourned for him Too early haled to that still habitation Beneath the grass-roots dim, — Where his faint limbs and pain-o'er-wearied heart Of all earth's loveliness became a part, XXI. But where, thou sayest, himself would not abide, - Thy solemn incommunicable joy Announcing Adonais has not died, Attesting Death to free but not destroy, All this was as thy swan-song mystical.
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