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Maiden with English hair and eyes	A
The colour of Italian skies	A
What seek you by this shore	B
I seek sir for the latest home	C
Where Shelley dwelt and o'er the foam	C
Speeding returned no more ''	D
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Come then with me I seek it too	E
Are you his kith For strangely you	E
Resemble him in mien	F
No save it be that all are kin	G
Who cherish the same thoughts within	G
And gaze on things unseen ''	-
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It should be easy sure to find	H
Waves close in front woods close behind	H
Green shutters whitewashed walls	I
A little space of rocky ground	J
Where climbs the wave and round and round	J
The seagull curves and calls	I
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Lo there it stands A quiet spot	K
Untenanted it seems forgot	K
Like shrine from which the God	L
Hath vanished and but left behind	H
A something in the air the wind	H
Recalling where he trod	L
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Upon this balcony how oft	M
When waves were smooth and winds were soft	N
As now he must have stood	O
And dreamed of days when men should be	P
Bondless as this unfettered sea	P
And peaceful as that wood	O
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What would he find if came he now	Q
A phantom crown on kingly brow	Q
Veiled sceptre trembling throne	R
Pulpits where threat and curse have ceased	S
And shrines whereat half sceptic priest	S
Worships too oft alone	R
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With muffled psalm and whispered hymn	T
At secret dawn or twilight dim	T
A pious remnant pray	U
For their maimed rites indulgence plead	V
And half uncertain of their creed	V
Explain their God away	U
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Gone the conventions Shelley cursed	W
The first are last the last are first	W
The lame the halt the blind	H
Now in the seat of power along	X
With the far seeing and the strong	X
Mould mandates for mankind	H
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No longer doth man's will decide	Y
And woman's feebler impulse guide	Y
He yields to her his might	Z
Duty hath grown an old world tale	A2
And chaste Obedience rends her veil	A2
For epicene delight	Z
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Where now do towering despots reign	B2
Over lithe knee and servile brain	B2
The scared the base the bought	K
Monarchs themselves now bend with awe	C2
Before the kingliness of Law	D2
The majesty of Thought	E2
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Yes Kings have gone or reign as slaves	F2
Religion mumbles round our graves	F2
But shapes our lives no more	B
Tradition thrice spurned Sibyl burns	G2
The leaves mob Sovereignty spurns	G2
Contemptuous of her lore	B
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Fair Maiden with the sea blue eyes	A
With whom beneath these sea blue skies	A
Shelley had loved to live	H2
Forgive me if his dream unborn	I2
Then but now adult moves my scorn	I2
Would He too not forgive	J2
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For where both Crown and Cowl defied	Y
Sue for the ruth they once denied	Y
What would he find instead	K2
A fiercer despot fouler creed	V
The Rule of Gold the rites of Greed	V
And a bitterer cry for bread	K2
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Wake poet and retune your strings	L2
The earth now swarms with petty kings	L2
Seated on self made thrones	L2
And altar tables richly spread	K2
Where Roguery consecrates the bread	K2
And Opulence atones	L2
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Here Shelley prayed that War might cease	L2
From earth and Pentecostal Peace	L2
Descend with dovelike breath	M2
Look round this bay each treeless gorge	N2
Each scarred ravine incessant forge	N2
The instruments of death	M2
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From Salterbrand's unfreezing peaks	L2
To sunny Manfredonia's creeks	L2
Have alien satraps gone	O2
But guarding Italy the Free	P
Her murderous mammoth monsters see	P
Come grimly wallowing on	P2
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Yes here He dwelt and dreamed and there	Q2
Gleams Porto Venere the fair	Q2
The mockery of a name	R2
Where fervent Venus once was Queen	F
Hot Mars now ravishes the scene	F
And fans a fiercer flame	R2
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Fair Maiden with the English brow	Q
Although from me who shortly now	Q
Must tread life's downward slope	S2
Illusions one by one depart	T2
Still foster in your virgin heart	T2
The embryo of Hope	S2
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The hills remain the woods the waves	L2
And they alone are dupes or slaves	L2
Who spurning Nature's breast	U2
Too high would soar too deep would sound	J
And madden vainly round and round	J
The orbit of unrest	U2
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Pity too lingers As I speak	V2
The teardrops tremble on your cheek	V2
Too silent to deceive	W2
And with assuaging hand you show	X2
How tenderness still tempers woe	X2
And none need singly grieve	W2
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Yes sweet it were with you for guide	Y
To float across that dimpling tide	Y
And on its farther shore	B
To prove if Venus still holds sway	U
And wandering with you round the bay	U
Tempt back one's youth once more	B
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But child it is not Shelley's world	Y2
Fancy's light sails had best be furled	Y2
Before they surge and swell	Z2
What helm can steer the heart or who	E
Keep moored inspired by such as You	E
Heaven prosper you Farewell	Z2

Alfred Austin

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