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I	A
The everlasting universe of things	B
Flows through the mind and rolls its rapid waves	C
Now dark now glittering now reflecting gloom	D
Now lending splendour where from secret springs	B
The source of human thought its tribute brings	B
Of waters with a sound but half its own	E
Such as a feeble brook will oft assume	D
In the wild woods among the mountains lone	E
Where waterfalls around it leap for ever	F
Where woods and winds contend and a vast river	F
Over its rocks ceaselessly bursts and raves	C
II	A
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Thus thou Ravine of Arve dark deep Ravine	G
Thou many colour'd many voiced vale	H
Over whose pines and crags and caverns sail	H
Fast cloud shadows and sunbeams awful scene	G
Where Power in likeness of the Arve comes down	I
From the ice gulfs that gird his secret throne	E
Bursting through these dark mountains like the flame	J
Of lightning through the tempest thou dost lie	A
Thy giant brood of pines around thee clinging	K
Children of elder time in whose devotion	L
The chainless winds still come and ever came	J
To drink their odours and their mighty swinging	K
To hear an old and solemn harmony	M
Thine earthly rainbows stretch'd across the sweep	N
Of the aethereal waterfall whose veil	H
Robes some unsculptur'd image the strange sleep	N
Which when the voices of the desert fail	H
Wraps all in its own deep eternity	M
Thy caverns echoing to the Arve's commotion	L
A loud lone sound no other sound can tame	J
Thou art pervaded with that ceaseless motion	L
Thou art the path of that unresting sound	O
Dizzy Ravine and when I gaze on thee	M
I seem as in a trance sublime and strange	P
To muse on my own separate fantasy	M
My own my human mind which passively	M
Now renders and receives fast influencings	M
Holding an unremitting interchange	P
With the clear universe of things around	O
One legion of wild thoughts whose wandering wings	M
Now float above thy darkness and now rest	Q
Where that or thou art no unbidden guest	Q
In the still cave of the witch Poesy	M
Seeking among the shadows that pass by	A
Ghosts of all things that are some shade of thee	M
Some phantom some faint image till the breast	Q
From which they fled recalls them thou art there	R
III	A
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Some say that gleams of a remoter world	S
Visit the soul in sleep that death is slumber	F
And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber	F
Of those who wake and live I look on high	A
Has some unknown omnipotence unfurl'd	S
The veil of life and death or do I lie	A
In dream and does the mightier world of sleep	N
Spread far around and inaccessibly	A
Its circles For the very spirit fails	M
Driven like a homeless cloud from steep to steep	N
That vanishes among the viewless gales	M
Far far above piercing the infinite sky	A
Mont Blanc appears still snowy and serene	G
Its subject mountains their unearthly forms	M
Pile around it ice and rock broad vales between	G
Of frozen floods unfathomable deeps	M
Blue as the overhanging heaven that spread	T
And wind among the accumulated steeps	M
A desert peopled by the storms alone	E
Save when the eagle brings some hunter's bone	E
And the wolf tracks her there how hideously	A
Its shapes are heap'd around rude bare and high	A
Ghastly and scarr'd and riven Is this the scene	G
Where the old Earthquake daemon taught her young	U
Ruin Were these their toys or did a sea	A
Of fire envelop once this silent snow	V
None can reply all seems eternal now	W
The wilderness has a mysterious tongue	U
Which teaches awful doubt or faith so mild	X
So solemn so serene that man may be	A
But for such faith with Nature reconcil'd	X
Thou hast a voice great Mountain to repeal	A
Large codes of fraud and woe not understood	Y
By all but which the wise and great and good	Y
Interpret or make felt or deeply feel	A
IV	A
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The fields the lakes the forests and the streams	M
Ocean and all the living things that dwell	A
Within the daedal earth lightning and rain	Z
Earthquake and fiery flood and hurricane	Z
The torpor of the year when feeble dreams	M
Visit the hidden buds or dreamless sleep	N
Holds every future leaf and flower the bound	O
With which from that detested trance they leap	N
The works and ways of man their death and birth	A2
And that of him and all that his may be	A
All things that move and breathe with toil and sound	O
Are born and die revolve subside and swell	A
Power dwells apart in its tranquillity	O
Remote serene and inaccessible	A
And this the naked countenance of earth	A2
On which I gaze even these primeval mountains	M
Teach the adverting mind The glaciers creep	N
Like snakes that watch their prey from their far fountains	M
Slow rolling on there many a precipice	M
Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power	F
Have pil'd dome pyramid and pinnacle	A
A city of death distinct with many a tower	F
And wall impregnable of beaming ice	M
Yet not a city but a flood of ruin	L
Is there that from the boundaries of the sky	A
Rolls its perpetual stream vast pines are strewing	A
Its destin'd path or in the mangled soil	A
Branchless and shatter'd stand the rocks drawn down	I
From yon remotest waste have overthrown	E
The limits of the dead and living world	O
Never to be reclaim'd The dwelling place	M
Of insects beasts and birds becomes its spoil	A
Their food and their retreat for ever gone	B2
So much of life and joy is lost The race	M
Of man flies far in dread his work and dwelling	A
Vanish like smoke before the tempest's stream	C2
And their place is not known Below vast caves	M
Shine in the rushing torrents' restless gleam	C2
Which from those secret chasms in tumult welling	A
Meet in the vale and one majestic River	F
The breath and blood of distant lands for ever	F
Rolls its loud waters to the ocean waves	M
Breathes its swift vapours to the circling air	R
V	A
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Mont Blanc yet gleams on high the power is there	R
The still and solemn power of many sights	M
And many sounds and much of life and death	D2
In the calm darkness of the moonless nights	M
In the lone glare of day the snows descend	O
Upon that Mountain none beholds them there	R
Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun	L
Or the star beams dart through them Winds contend	O
Silently there and heap the snow with breath	D2
Rapid and strong but silently Its home	E2
The voiceless lightning in these solitudes	M
Keeps innocently and like vapour broods	M
Over the snow The secret Strength of things	M
Which governs thought and to the infinite dome	E2
Of Heaven is as a law inhabits thee	A
And what were thou and earth and stars and sea	A
If to the human mind's imaginings	A
Silence and solitude were vacancy	A

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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