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'O happy Earth reality of Heaven	A
To which those restless souls that ceaselessly	B
Throng through the human universe aspire	C
Thou consummation of all mortal hope	D
Thou glorious prize of blindly working will	E
Whose rays diffused throughout all space and time	F
Verge to one point and blend forever there	G
Of purest spirits thou pure dwelling place	H
Where care and sorrow impotence and crime	F
Languor disease and ignorance dare not come	I
O happy Earth reality of Heaven	A
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'Genius has seen thee in her passionate dreams	J
And dim forebodings of thy loveliness	J
Haunting the human heart have there entwined	K
Those rooted hopes of some sweet place of bliss	J
Where friends and lovers meet to part no more	L
Thou art the end of all desire and will	E
The product of all action and the souls	J
That by the paths of an aspiring change	M
Have reached thy haven of perpetual peace	J
There rest from the eternity of toil	N
That framed the fabric of thy perfectness	J
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'Even Time the conqueror fled thee in his fear	O
That hoary giant who in lonely pride	P
So long had ruled the world that nations fell	Q
Beneath his silent footstep Pyramids	J
That for millenniums had withstood the tide	P
Of human things his storm breath drove in sand	R
Across that desert where their stones survived	S
The name of him whose pride had heaped them there	G
Yon monarch in his solitary pomp	T
Was but the mushroom of a summer day	U
That his light wing d footstep pressed to dust	V
Time was the king of earth all things gave way	U
Before him but the fixed and virtuous will	E
The sacred sympathies of soul and sense	J
That mocked his fury and prepared his fall	W
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'Yet slow and gradual dawned the morn of love	X
Long lay the clouds of darkness o'er the scene	Y
Till from its native heaven they rolled away	U
First crime triumphant o'er all hope careered	V
Unblushing undisguising bold and strong	Z
Whilst falsehood tricked in virtue's attributes	J
Long sanctified all deeds of vice and woe	A2
Till done by her own venomous sting to death	B2
She left the moral world without a law	C2
No longer fettering passion's fearless wing	D2
Nor searing reason with the brand of God	V
Then steadily the happy ferment worked	V
Reason was free and wild though passion went	V
Through tangled glens and wood embosomed meads	J
Gathering a garland of the strangest flowers	J
Yet like the bee returning to her queen	Y
She bound the sweetest on her sister's brow	E2
Who meek and sober kissed the sportive child	V
No longer trembling at the broken rod	V
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'Mild was the slow necessity of death	B2
The tranquil spirit failed beneath its grasp	F2
Without a groan almost without a fear	O
Calm as a voyager to some distant land	V
And full of wonder full of hope as he	B
The deadly germs of languor and disease	J
Died in the human frame and purity	B
Blessed with all gifts her earthly worshippers	J
How vigorous then the athletic form of age	G2
How clear its open and unwrinkled brow	E2
Where neither avarice cunning pride or care	G
Had stamped the seal of gray deformity	B
On all the mingling lineaments of time	F
How lovely the intrepid front of youth	H2
Which meek eyed courage decked with freshest grace	J
Courage of soul that dreaded not a name	I2
And elevated will that journeyed on	J2
Through life's phantasmal scene in fearlessness	J
With virtue love and pleasure hand in hand	V
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'Then that sweet bondage which is freedom's self	K2
And rivets with sensation's softest tie	V
The kindred sympathies of human souls	J
Needed no fetters of tyrannic law	C2
Those delicate and timid impulses	J
In Nature's primal modesty arose	J
And with undoubting confidence disclosed	V
The growing longings of its dawning love	X
Unchecked by dull and selfish chastity	B
That virtue of the cheaply virtuous	J
Who pride themselves in senselessness and frost	V
No longer prostitution's venomed bane	L2
Poisoned the springs of happiness and life	M2
Woman and man in confidence and love	X
Equal and free and pure together trod	V
The mountain paths of virtue which no more	L
Were stained with blood from many a pilgrim's feet	V
	-
'Then where through distant ages long in pride	V
The palace of the monarch slave had mocked	V
Famine's faint groan and penury's silent tear	G
A heap of crumbling ruins stood and threw	N2
Year after year their stones upon the field	V
Wakening a lonely echo and the leaves	J
Of the old thorn that on the topmost tower	O2
Usurped the royal ensign's grandeur shook	P2
In the stern storm that swayed the topmost tower	O2
And whispered strange tales in the whirlwind's ear	Q2
	-
'Low through the lone cathedral's roofless aisles	J
The melancholy winds a death dirge sung	R2
It were a sight of awfulness to see	B
The works of faith and slavery so vast	V
So sumptuous yet so perishing withal	C2
Even as the corpse that rests beneath its wall	C2
A thousand mourners deck the pomp of death	B2
To day the breathing marble glows above	X
To decorate its memory and tongues	J
Are busy of its life to morrow worms	J
In silence and in darkness seize their prey	U
	-
'Within the massy prison's mouldering courts	J
Fearless and free the ruddy children played	V
Weaving gay chaplets for their innocent brows	J
With the green ivy and the red wall flower	O2
That mock the dungeon's unavailing gloom	S2
The ponderous chains and gratings of strong iron	T2
There rusted amid heaps of broken stone	U2
That mingled slowly with their native earth	V2
There the broad beam of day which feebly once	J
Lighted the cheek of lean captivity	B
With a pale and sickly glare then freely shone	U2
On the pure smiles of infant playfulness	J
No more the shuddering voice of hoarse despair	G
Pealed through the echoing vaults but soothing notes	J
Of ivy fingered winds and gladsome birds	J
And merriment were resonant around	V
	-
'These ruins soon left not a wreck behind	V
Their elements wide scattered o'er the globe	W2
To happier shapes were moulded and became	I2
Ministrant to all blissful impulses	J
Thus human things were perfected and earth	V2
Even as a child beneath its mother's love	X
Was strengthened in all excellence and grew	N2
Fairer and nobler with each passing year	O
	-
'Now Time his dusky pennons o'er the scene	Y
Closes in steadfast darkness and the past	V
Fades from our charm d sight My task is done	A
Thy lore is learned Earth's wonders are thine own	U2
With all the fear and all the hope they bring	D2
My spells are passed the present now recurs	J
Ah me a pathless wilderness remains	J
Yet unsubdued by man's reclaiming hand	V
	-
'Yet human Spirit bravely hold thy course	J
Let virtue teach thee firmly to pursue	J
The gradual paths of an aspiring change	M
For birth and life and death and that strange state	V
Before the naked soul has found its home	X2
All tend to perfect happiness and urge	Y2
The restless wheels of being on their way	U
Whose flashing spokes instinct with infinite life	M2
Bicker and burn to gain their destined goal	C2
For birth but wakes the spirit to the sense	J
Of outward shows whose unexperienced shape	Z2
New modes of passion to its frame may lend	V
Life is its state of action and the store	L
Of all events is aggregated there	G
That variegate the eternal universe	J
Death is a gate of dreariness and gloom	S2
That leads to azure isles and beaming skies	J
And happy regions of eternal hope	D
Therefore O Spirit fearlessly bear on	J2
Though storms may break the primrose on its stalk	A3
Though frosts may blight the freshness of its bloom	S2
Yet spring's awakening breath will woo the earth	V2
To feed with kindliest dews its favorite flower	O2
That blooms in mossy bank and darksome glens	J
Lighting the greenwood with its sunny smile	C2
	-
'Fear not then Spirit death's disrobing hand	V
So welcome when the tyrant is awake	B3
So welcome when the bigot's hell torch burns	J
'T is but the voyage of a darksome hour	O2
The transient gulf dream of a startling sleep	C3
Death is no foe to virtue earth has seen	Y
Love's brightest roses on the scaffold bloom	S2
Mingling with freedom's fadeless laurels there	G
And presaging the truth of visioned bliss	J
Are there not hopes within thee which this scene	Y
Of linked and gradual being has confirmed	V
Whose stingings bade thy heart look further still	C2
When to the moonlight walk by Henry led	V
Sweetly and s	J

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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