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EPODE a	A
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I stood within the City disinterred	B
And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls	C
Of spirits passing through the streets and heard	B
The Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals	C
Thrill through those roofless halls	C
The oracular thunder penetrating shook	D
The listening soul in my suspended blood	B
I felt that Earth out of her deep heart spoke	E
I felt but heard not through white columns glowed	B
The isle sustaining ocean flood	B
A plane of light between two heavens of azure	F
Around me gleamed many a bright sepulchre	F
Of whose pure beauty Time as if his pleasure	F
Were to spare Death had never made erasure	F
But every living lineament was clear	F
As in the sculptor's thought and there	F
The wreaths of stony myrtle ivy and pine	G
Like winter leaves o'ergrown by moulded snow	H
Seemed only not to move and grow	H
Because the crystal silence of the air	F
Weighed on their life even as the Power divine	G
Which then lulled all things brooded upon mine	G
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NOTE	B
Pompeii SHELLEY'S NOTE	B
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EPODE a	A
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Then gentle winds arose	C
With many a mingled close	C
Of wild Aeolian sound and mountain odours keen	I
And where the Baian ocean	J
Welters with airlike motion	J
Within above around its bowers of starry green	I
Moving the sea flowers in those purple caves	C
Even as the ever stormless atmosphere	F
Floats o'er the Elysian realm	K
It bore me like an Angel o'er the waves	C
Of sunlight whose swift pinnace of dewy air	F
No storm can overwhelm	K
I sailed where ever flows	C
Under the calm Serene	I
A spirit of deep emotion	J
From the unknown graves	C
Of the dead Kings of Melody	B
Shadowy Aornos darkened o'er the helm	K
The horizontal aether Heaven stripped bare	F
Its depth over Elysium where the prow	F
Made the invisible water white as snow	H
From that Typhaean mount Inarime	K
There streamed a sunbright vapour like the standard	B
Of some aethereal host	B
Whilst from all the coast	B
Louder and louder gathering round there wandered	B
Over the oracular woods and divine sea	B
Prophesyings which grew articulate	B
They seize me I must speak them be they fate	B
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NOTES	C
odours B odour	F
depth B depths	C
sun bright B sunlit	B
Homer and Virgil SHELLEY'S NOTE	B
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STROPHE	L
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Naples thou Heart of men which ever pantest	B
Naked beneath the lidless eye of Heaven	J
Elysian City which to calm enchantest	B
The mutinous air and sea they round thee even	M
As sleep round Love are driven	J
Metropolis of a ruined Paradise	C
Long lost late won and yet but half regained	B
Bright Altar of the bloodless sacrifice	C
Which armed Victory offers up unstained	B
To Love the flower enchained	B
Thou which wert once and then didst cease to be	B
Now art and henceforth ever shalt be free	B
If Hope and Truth and Justice can avail	N
Hail hail all hail	N
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STROPHE	L
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Thou youngest giant birth	O
Which from the groaning earth	O
Leap'st clothed in armour of impenetrable scale	N
Last of the Intercessors	C
Who 'gainst the Crowned Transgressors	C
Pleadest before God's love Arrayed in Wisdom's mail	N
Wave thy lightning lance in mirth	O
Nor let thy high heart fail	N
Though from their hundred gates the leagued Oppressors	C
With hurried legions move	L
Hail hail all hail	N
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ANTISTROPHE a	A
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What though Cimmerian Anarchs dare blaspheme	K
Freedom and thee thy shield is as a mirror	F
To make their blind slaves see and with fierce gleam	K
To turn his hungry sword upon the wearer	F
A new Actaeon's error	F
Shall theirs have been devoured by their own hounds	C
Be thou like the imperial Basilisk	E
Killing thy foe with unapparent wounds	C
Gaze on Oppression till at that dread risk	E
Aghast she pass from the Earth's disk	E
Fear not but gaze for freemen mightier grow	F
And slaves more feeble gazing on their foe	F
If Hope and Truth and Justice may avail	N
Thou shalt be great All hail	N
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ANTISTROPHE a	A
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From Freedom's form divine	G
From Nature's inmost shrine	G
Strip every impious gawd rend	B
Error veil by veil	N
O'er Ruin desolate	B
O'er Falsehood's fallen state	B
Sit thou sublime unawed be the Destroyer pale	N
And equal laws be thine	G
And winged words let sail	N
Freighted with truth even from the throne of God	B
That wealth surviving fate	B
Be thine All hail	N
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NOTE	B
wealth surviving cj A C Bradley	B
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ANTISTROPHE b	B
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Didst thou not start to hear Spain's thrilling paean	J
From land to land re echoed solemnly	B
Till silence became music From the Aeaean	J
To the cold Alps eternal Italy	B
Starts to hear thine The Sea	B
Which paves the desert streets of Venice laughs	C
In light and music widowed Genoa wan	J
By moonlight spells ancestral epitaphs	C
Murmuring 'Where is Doria ' fair Milan	J
Within whose veins long ran	J
The viper's palsying venom lifts her heel	P
To bruise his head The signal and the seal	P
If Hope and Truth and Justice can avail	N
Art thou of all these hopes O hail	N
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NOTES	C
Aeaea the island of Circe SHELLEY'S NOTE	B
The viper was the armorial device of the Visconti	B
tyrants of Milan SHELLEY'S NOTE	B
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ANTISTROPHE b	B
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Florence beneath the sun	J
Of cities fairest one	J
Blushes within her bower for Freedom's expectation	J
From eyes of quenchless hope	Q
Rome tears the priestly cope	Q
As ruling once by power so now by admiration	J
An athlete stripped to run	J
From a remoter station	J
For the high prize lost on Philippi's shore	F
As then Hope Truth and Justice did avail	N
So now may Fraud and Wrong O hail	N
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EPODE b	B
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Hear ye the march as of the Earth born Forms	C
Arrayed against the ever living Gods	C
The crash and darkness of a thousand storms	C
Bursting their inaccessible abodes	C
Of crags and thunder clouds	C
See ye the banners blazoned to the day	B
Inwrought with emblems of barbaric pride	B
Dissonant threats kill Silence far away	B
The serene Heaven which wraps our Eden wide	B
With iron light is dyed	B
The Anarchs of the North lead forth their legions	C
Like Chaos o'er creation uncreating	E
An hundred tribes nourished on strange religions	C
And lawless slaveries down the aereal regions	C
Of the white Alps desolating	E
Famished wolves that bide no waiting	E
Blotting the glowing footsteps of old glory	B
Trampling our columned cities into dust	B
Their dull and savage lust	B
On Beauty's corse to sickness satiating	E
They come The fields they tread look black and hoary	B
With fire from their red feet the streams run gory	B
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EPODE b	B
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Great Spirit deepest Love	L
Which rulest and dost move	L
All things which live and are within the Italian shore	F
Who spreadest Heaven around it	B
Whose woods rocks waves surround it	B
Who sittest in thy star o'er Ocean's western floor	F
Spirit of beauty at whose soft command	B
The sunbeams and the showers distil its foison	J
From the Earth's bosom chill	R
Oh bid those beams be each a blinding brand	B
Of lightning bid those showers be dews of poison	J
Bid the Earth's plenty kill	R
Bid thy bright Heaven above	L
Whilst light and darkness bound it	B
Be their tomb who planned	B
To make it ours and thine	J
Or with thine harmonizing ardours fill	R
And raise thy sons as o'er the prone horizon	J
Thy lamp feeds every twilight wave with fire	F
Be man's high hope and unextinct desire	F
The instrument to work thy will divine	J
Then clouds from sunbeams antelopes from leopards	C
And frowns and fears from thee	B
Would not more swiftly flee	B
Than Celtic wolves from the Ausonian shepherds	C
Whatever Spirit from thy starry shrine	J
Thou yieldest or withholdest oh let be	B
This city of thy worship ever free	B
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NOTES	C
old lost B	B
black blue B	B