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This idea is enunciated in many of Shelley's works, but perhaps the clearest expression of it is in Queen Mab, where he says : — ' ' Look on yonder earth : The golden harvests spring ; the unfailing sun Sheds light and life ; the fruits, the flowers, the trees, Arise in due succession ; all things speak Peace, harmony, and love. The universe In nature's silent eloquence, declares That all fulfil the works of love and joy, — All but the outcast man. He fabricates The sword, which stabs his peace... ; he cherisheth The snakes that gnaw his heart : he raiseth up The tyrant, whose delight is in his woe, Whose sport is in his agony. " Mark here that man the outcast is contrasted with the peace, harmony, and love which otherwise prevail on the earth. / I should like to quote still another passage to the same effect : — ** Hath Nature's soul That form'd this world so beautiful, that spread Earth's lap with plenty, and life's smallest chord Strung to unchanging unison, that gave The happy birds their dwelling in the grove, That yielded to the wanderers of the deep The lovely silence of the unfathom'd main, And fill'd the meanest worm that crawls in dust "With spirit, thought, and love ; on Man alone, Partial in causeless malice, wantonly Heap'd ruin, vice, and slavery ; his soul Blasted with withering curses ; placed afar The meteor-happiness, that shuns his grasp, But serving on the frightful gulf to glare, Rent wide beneath his footsteps ?
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