The Daemon Of The World. A Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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PART	A
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Nec tantum prodere vati	A
Quantum scire licet Venit aetas omnis in unam	B
Congeriem miserumque premunt tot saecula pectus	C
LUCAN Phars v	D
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How wonderful is Death	E
Death and his brother Sleep	F
One pale as yonder wan and horned moon	G
With lips of lurid blue	H
The other glowing like the vital morn	I
When throned on ocean's wave	J
It breathes over the world	A
Yet both so passing strange and wonderful	K
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Hath then the iron sceptred Skeleton	L
Whose reign is in the tainted sepulchres	C
To the hell dogs that couch beneath his throne	M
Cast that fair prey Must that divinest form	B
Which love and admiration cannot view	H
Without a beating heart whose azure veins	C
Steal like dark streams along a field of snow	N
Whose outline is as fair as marble clothed	A
In light of some sublimest mind decay	O
Nor putrefaction's breath	E
Leave aught of this pure spectacle	K
But loathsomeness and ruin	L
Spare aught but a dark theme	B
On which the lightest heart might moralize	C
Or is it but that downy winged slumbers	C
Have charmed their nurse coy Silence near her lids	C
To watch their own repose	C
Will they when morning's beam	B
Flows through those wells of light	A
Seek far from noise and day some western cave	J
Where woods and streams with soft and pausing winds	C
A lulling murmur weave	P
Ianthe doth not sleep	F
The dreamless sleep of death	E
Nor in her moonlight chamber silently	D
Doth Henry hear her regular pulses throb	Q
Or mark her delicate cheek	R
With interchange of hues mock the broad moon	G
Outwatching weary night	A
Without assured reward	A
Her dewy eyes are closed	A
On their translucent lids whose texture fine	S
Scarce hides the dark blue orbs that burn below	N
With unapparent fire	T
The baby Sleep is pillowed	A
Her golden tresses shade	A
The bosom's stainless pride	A
Twining like tendrils of the parasite	A
Around a marble column	U
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Hark whence that rushing sound	A
'Tis like a wondrous strain that sweeps	C
Around a lonely ruin	L
When west winds sigh and evening waves respond	A
In whispers from the shore	V
'Tis wilder than the unmeasured notes	C
Which from the unseen lyres of dells and groves	C
The genii of the breezes sweep	F
Floating on waves of music and of light	A
The chariot of the Daemon of the World	A
Descends in silent power	T
Its shape reposed within slight as some cloud	A
That catches but the palest tinge of day	A
When evening yields to night	A
Bright as that fibrous woof when stars indue	A
Its transitory robe	W
Four shapeless shadows bright and beautiful	K
Draw that strange car of glory reins of light	A
Check their unearthly speed they stop and fold	A
Their wings of braided air	X
The Daemon leaning from the ethereal car	Y
Gazed on the slumbering maid	A
Human eye hath ne'er beheld	A
A shape so wild so bright so beautiful	K
As that which o'er the maiden's charmed sleep	F
Waving a starry wand	A
Hung like a mist of light	A
Such sounds as breathed around like odorous winds	C
Of wakening spring arose	C
Filling the chamber and the moonlight sky	Z
Maiden the world's supremest spirit	A
Beneath the shadow of her wings	C
Folds all thy memory doth inherit	A
From ruin of divinest things	C
Feelings that lure thee to betray	A
And light of thoughts that pass away	A
For thou hast earned a mighty boon	G
The truths which wisest poets see	D
Dimly thy mind may make its own	M
Rewarding its own majesty	D
Entranced in some diviner mood	A
Of self oblivious solitude	A
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Custom and Faith and Power thou spurnest	A
From hate and awe thy heart is free	D
Ardent and pure as day thou burnest	A
For dark and cold mortality	A
A living light to cheer it long	A2
The watch fires of the world among	B2
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Therefore from nature's inner shrine	S
Where gods and fiends in worship bend	A
Majestic spirit be it thine	S
The flame to seize the veil to rend	A
Where the vast snake Eternity	A
In charmed sleep doth ever lie	Z
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All that inspires thy voice of love	C2
Or speaks in thy unclosing eyes	C
Or through thy frame doth burn or move	D2
Or think or feel awake arise	C
Spirit leave for mine and me	A
Earth's unsubstantial mimicry	A
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It ceased and from the mute and moveless frame	B
A radiant spirit arose	C
All beautiful in naked purity	A
Robed in its human hues it did ascend	A
Disparting as it went the silver clouds	C
It moved towards the car and took its seat	A
Beside the Daemon shape	E2
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Obedient to the sweep of aery song	A2
The mighty ministers	C
Unfurled their prismy wings	C
The magic car moved on	F2
The night was fair innumerable stars	C
Studded heaven's dark blue vault	A
The eastern wave grew pale	G2
With the first smile of morn	I
The magic car moved on	F2
From the swift sweep of wings	C
The atmosphere in flaming sparkles flew	H
And where the burning wheels	C
Eddied above the mountain's loftiest peak	R
Was traced a line of lightning	H2
Now far above a rock the utmost verge	I2
Of the wide earth it flew	H
The rival of the Andes whose dark brow	J2
Frowned o'er the silver sea	A
Far far below the chariot's stormy path	K2
Calm as a slumbering babe	L2
Tremendous ocean lay	A
Its broad and silent mirror gave to view	H
The pale and waning stars	C
The chariot's fiery track	M2
And the grey light of morn	I
Tingeing those fleecy clouds	C
That cradled in their folds the infant dawn	N2
The chariot seemed to fly	Z
Through the abyss of an immense concave	J
Radiant with million constellations tinged	A
With shades of infinite colour	J2
And semicircled with a belt	A
Flashing incessant meteors	C
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As they approached their goal	O2
The winged shadows seemed to gather speed	A
The sea no longer was distinguished earth	P2
Appeared a vast and shadowy sphere suspended	A
In the black concave of heaven	L
With the sun's cloudless orb	Q2
Whose rays of rapid light	A
Parted around the chariot's swifter course	C
And fell like ocean's feathery spray	J2
Dashed from the boiling surge	I2
Before a vessel's prow	J2
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The magic car moved on	F2
Earth's distant orb appeared	A
The smallest light that twinkles in the heavens	C
Whilst round the chariot's way	J2
Innumerable systems widely rolled	A
And countless spheres diffused	A
An ever varying glory	J2
It was a sight of wonder Some were horned	A
And like the moon's argentine crescent hung	B2
In the dark dome of heaven some did shed	A
A clear mild beam like Hesperus while the sea	J2
Yet glows with fading sunlight others dashed	A
Athwart the night with trains of bickering fire	J2
Like sphered worlds to death and ruin driven	L
Some shone like stars and as the chariot passed	A
Bedimmed all other light	A
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Spirit of Nature here	J2
In this interminable wilderness	C
Of worlds at whose involved immensity	A
Even soaring fancy staggers	C
Here is thy fitting temple	K
Yet not the lightest leaf	R2
That quivers to the passing breeze	C
Is less instinct with thee	J2
Yet not the meanest worm	B
That lurks in graves and fattens on the dead	A
Less shares thy eternal breath	E
Spirit of Nature thou	J2
Imperishable as this glorious scene	S2
Here is thy fitting temple	K
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If solitude hath ever led thy steps	C
To the shore of the immeasurable sea	J2
And thou hast lingered there	J2
Until the sun's broad orb	Q2
Seemed resting on the fiery line of ocean	L
Thou must have marked the braided webs of gold	A
That without motion hang	T2
Over the sinking sphere	J2
Thou must have marked the billowy mountain clouds	C
Edged with intolerable radiancy	C
Towering like rocks of jet	A
Above the burning deep	F
And yet there is a moment	A
When the sun's highest point	A
Peers like a star o'er ocean's western edge	U2
When those far clouds of feathery purple gleam	B
Like fairy lands girt by some heavenly sea	C
Then has thy rapt imagination soared	A
Where in the midst of all existing things	C
The temple of the mightiest Daemon stands	C
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Yet not the golden islands	C
That gleam amid yon flood of purple light	A
Nor the feathery curtains	C
That canopy the sun's resplendent couch	V2
Nor the burnished ocean waves	C
Paving that gorgeous dome	B
So fair so wonderful a sight	A
As the eternal temple could afford	A
The elements of all that human thought	A
Can frame of lovely or sublime did join	W2
To rear the fabric of the fane nor aught	A
Of earth may image forth its majesty	A
Yet likest evening's vault that faery hall	X2
As heaven low resting on the wave it spread	A
Its floors of flashing light	A
Its vast and azure dome	B
And on the verge of that obscure abyss	C
Where crystal battlements o'erhang the gulf	Y2
Of the dark world ten thousand spheres diffuse	C
Their lustre through its adamantine gates	C
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The magic car no longer moved	A
The Daemon and the Spirit	A
Entered the eternal gates	C
Those clouds of aery gold	A
That slept in glittering billows	C
Beneath the azure canopy	A
With the ethereal footsteps trembled not	A
While slight and odorous mists	C
Floated to strains of thrilling melody	A
Through the vast columns and the pearly shrines	C
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The Daemon and the Spirit	A
Approached the overhanging battlement	A
Below lay stretched the boundless universe	C
There far as the remotest line	S
That limits swift imagination's flight	A
Unending orbs mingled in mazy motion	L
Immutably fulfilling	H2
Eternal Nature's law	Z2
Above below around	A
The circling systems formed	A
A wilderness of harmony	A
Each with undeviating aim	B
In eloquent silence through the depths of space	C
Pursued its wondrous way	J2
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Awhile the Spirit paused in ecstasy	A
Yet soon she saw as the vast spheres swept by	Z
Strange things within their belted orbs appear	J2
Like animated frenzies dimly moved	A
Shadows and skeletons and fiendly shapes	C
Thronging round human graves and o'er the dead	A
Sculpturing records for each memory	A
In verse such as malignant gods pronounce	C
Blasting the hopes of men when heaven and hell	A3
Confounded burst in ruin o'er the world	A
And they did build vast trophies instruments	C
Of murder human bones barbaric gold	A
Skins torn from living men and towers of skulls	C
With sightless holes gazing on blinder heaven	L
Mitres and crowns and brazen chariots stained	A
With blood and scrolls of mystic wickedness	C
The sanguine codes of venerable crime	B
The likeness of a throned king came by	Z
When these had passed bearing upon his brow	J2
A threefold crown his countenance was calm	B
His eye severe and cold but his right hand	A
Was charged with bloody coin and he did gnaw	Z2
By fits with secret smiles a human heart	A
Concealed beneath his robe and motley shapes	C
A multitudinous throng around him knelt	A
With bosoms bare and bowed heads and false looks	C
Of true submission as the sphere rolled by	Z
Brooking no eye to witness their foul shame	B
Which human hearts must feel while human tongues	C
Tremble to speak they did rage horribly	A
Breathing in self contempt fierce blasphemies	C
Against the Daemon of the World and high	Z
Hurling their armed hands where the pure Spirit	A
Serene and inaccessibly secure	J2
Stood on an isolated pinnacle	K
The flood of ages combating below	N
The depth of the unbounded universe	C
Above and all around	A
Necessity's unchanging harmony	A
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PART	A
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O happy Earth reality of Heaven	L
To which those restless powers that ceaselessly	A
Throng through the human universe aspire	J2
Thou consummation of all mortal hope	B3
Thou glorious prize of blindly working will	C3
Whose rays diffused throughout all space and time	B
Verge to one point and blend for ever there	J2
Of purest spirits thou pure dwelling place	C
Where care and sorrow impotence and crime	B
Languor disease and ignorance dare not come	U
O happy Earth reality of Heaven	L
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Genius has seen thee in her passionate dreams	C
And dim forebodings of thy loveliness	C
Haunting the human heart have there entwined	A
Those rooted hopes that the proud Power of Evil	K
Shall not for ever on this fairest world	A
Shake pestilence and war or that his slaves	C
With blasphemy for prayer and human blood	A
For sacrifice before his shrine for ever	J2
In adoration bend or Erebus	C
With all its banded fiends shall not uprise	C
To overwhelm in envy and revenge	D3
The dauntless and the good who dare to hurl	E3
Defiance at his throne girt tho' it be	A
With Death's omnipotence Thou hast beheld	A
His empire o'er the present and the past	A
It was a desolate sight now gaze on mine	S
Futurity Thou hoary giant Time	B
Render thou up thy half devoured babes	C
And from the cradles of eternity	A
Where millions lie lulled to their portioned sleep	F
By the deep murmuring stream of passing things	C
Tear thou that gloomy shroud Spirit behold	A
Thy glorious destiny	A
The Spirit saw	C
The vast frame of the renovated world	A
Smile in the lap of Chaos and the sense	C
Of hope thro' her fine texture did suffuse	C
Such varying glow as summer evening casts	C
On undulating clouds and deepening lakes	C
Like the vague sighings of a wind at even	F3
That wakes the wavelets of the slumbering sea	A
And dies on the creation of its breath	E
And sinks and rises fails and swells by fits	C
Was the sweet stream of thought that with wild motion	L
Flowed o'er the Spirit's human sympathies	C
The mighty tide of thought had paused awhile	G3
Which from the Daemon now like Ocean's stream	B
Again began to pour	J2
To me is given	L
The wonders of the human world to keep	F
Space matter time and mind let the sight	A
Renew and strengthen all thy failing hope	B3
All things are recreated and the flame	B
Of consentaneous love inspires all life	H3
The fertile bosom of the earth gives suck	I3
To myriads who still grow beneath her care	J2
Rewarding her with their pure perfectness	C
The balmy breathings of the wind inhale	G2
Her virtues and diffuse them all abroad	A
Health floats amid the gentle atmosphere	J2
Glows in the fruits and mantles on the stream	B
No storms deform the beaming brow of heaven	L
Nor scatter in the freshness of its pride	A
The foliage of the undecaying trees	C
But fruits are ever ripe flowers ever fair	J2
And Autumn proudly bears her matron grace	C
Kindling a flush on the fair cheek of Spring	H2
Whose virgin bloom beneath the ruddy fruit	A
Reflects its tint and blushes into love	C2
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The habitable earth is full of bliss	C
Those wastes of frozen billows that were hurled	A
By everlasting snow storms round the poles	C
Where matter dared not vegetate nor live	J3
But ceaseless frost round the vast solitude	A
Bound its broad zone of stillness are unloosed	A
And fragrant zephyrs there from spicy isles	C
Ruffle the placid ocean deep that rolls	C
Its broad bright surges to the sloping sand	A
Whose roar is wakened into echoings sweet	A
To murmur through the heaven breathing groves	C
And melodise with man's blest nature there	J2
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The vast tract of the parched and sandy waste	A
Now teems with countless rills and shady woods	C
Corn fields and pastures and white cottages	C
And where the startled wilderness did hear	J2
A savage conqueror stained in kindred blood	A
Hymmng his victory or the milder snake	K3
Crushing the bones of some frail antelope	B3
Within his brazen folds the dewy lawn	N2
Offering sweet incense to the sunrise smiles	C
To see a babe before his mother's door	J2
Share with the green and golden basilisk	K3
That comes to lick his feet his morning's meal	L3
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Those trackless deeps where many a weary sail	G2
Has seen above the illimitable plain	M3
Morning on night and night on morning rise	C
Whilst still no land to greet the wanderer spread	A
Its shadowy mountains on the sunbright sea	C
Where the loud roarings of the tempest waves	C
So long have mingled with the gusty wind	A
In melancholy loneliness and swept	A
The desert of those ocean solitudes	C
But vocal to the sea bird's harrowing shriek	K3
The bellowing monster and the rushing storm	B
Now to the sweet and many mingling sounds	C
Of kindliest human impulses respond	A
Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem	B
With lightsome clouds and shining seas between	S2
And fertile valleys resonant with bliss	C
Whilst green woods overcanopy the wave	J
Which like a toil worn labourer leaps to shore	J2
To meet the kisses of the flowerets there	J2
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Man chief perceives the change his being notes	C
The gradual renovation and defines	C
Each movement of its progress on his mind	A
Man where the gloom of the long polar night	A
Lowered o'er the snow clad rocks and frozen soil	N3
Where scarce the hardiest herb that braves the frost	A
Basked in the moonlight's ineffectual glow	N
Shrank with the plants and darkened with the night	A
Nor where the tropics bound the realms of day	A
With a broad belt of mingling cloud and flame	B
Where blue mists through the unmoving atmosphere	J2
Scattered the seeds of pestilence and fed	A
Unnatural vegetation where the land	A
Teemed with all earthquake tempest and disease	C
Was man a nobler being slavery	C
Had crushed him to his country's blood stained dust	A
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Even where the milder zone afforded man	O3
A seeming shelter yet contagion there	J2
Blighting his being with unnumbered ills	C
Spread like a quenchless fire nor truth availed	A
Till late to arrest its progress or create	A
That peace which first in bloodless victory waved	A
Her snowy standard o'er this favoured clime	B
There man was long the train bearer of slaves	C
The mimic of surrounding misery	C
The jackal of ambition's lion rage	P3
The bloodhound of religion's hungry zeal	L3
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Here now the human being stands adorning	K3
This loveliest earth with taintless body and mind	A
Blest from his birth with all bland impulses	C
Which gently in his noble bosom wake	K3
All kindly passions and all pure desires	C
Him still from hope to hope the bliss pursuing	K3
Which from the exhaustless lore of human weal	L3
Dawns on the virtuous mind the thoughts that rise	C
In time destroying infiniteness gift	A
With self enshrined eternity that mocks	C
The unprevailing hoariness of age	P3
And man once fleeting o'er the transient scene	S2
Swift as an unremembered vision stands	C
Immortal upon earth no longer now	J2
He slays the beast that sports around his dwelling	K3
And horribly devours its mangled flesh	Q3
Or drinks its vital blood which like a stream	B
Of poison thro' his fevered veins did flow	L3
Feeding a plague that secretly consumed	A
His feeble frame and kindling in his mind	A
Hatred despair and fear and vain belief	R2
The germs of misery death disease and crime	B
No longer now the winged habitants	C
That in the woods their sweet lives sing away	A
Flee from the form of man but gather round	A
And prune their sunny feathers on the hands	C
Which little children stretch in friendly sport	A
Towards these dreadless partners of their play	A
All things are void of terror man has lost	A
His desolating privilege and stands	C
An equal amidst equals happiness	C
And science dawn though late upon the earth	P2
Peace cheers the mind health renovates the frame	B
Disease and pleasure cease to mingle here	J2
Reason and passion cease to combat there	J2
Whilst mind unfettered o'er the earth extends	C
Its all subduing energies and wields	C
The sceptre of a vast dominion there	J2
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Mild is the slow necessity of death	E
The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp	R3
Without a groan almost without a fear	J2
Resigned in peace to the necessity	C
Calm as a voyager to some distant land	A
And full of wonder full of hope as he	C
The deadly germs of languor and disease	C
Waste in the human frame and Nature gifts	C
With choicest boons her human worshippers	C
How vigorous now the athletic form of age	P3
How clear its open and unwrinkled brow	J2
Where neither avarice cunning pride or care	J2
Had stamped the seal of grey deformity	C
On all the mingling lineaments of time	B
How lovely the intrepid front of youth	S3
How sweet the smiles of taintless infancy	C
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Within the massy prison's mouldering courts	C
Fearless and free the ruddy children play	A
Weaving gay chaplets for their innocent brows	C
With the green ivy and the red wall flower	J2
That mock the dungeon's unavailing gloom	B
The ponderous chains and gratings of strong iron	T3
There rust amid the accumulated ruins	C
Now mingling slowly with their native earth	P2
There the broad beam of day which feebly once	C
Lighted the cheek of lean captivity	C
With a pale and sickly glare now freely shines	C
On the pure smiles of infant playfulness	C
No more the shuddering voice of hoarse despair	J2
Peals through the echoing vaults but soothing notes	C
Of ivy fingered winds and gladsome birds	C
And merriment are resonant around	A
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The fanes of Fear and Falsehood hear no more	J2
The voice that once waked multitudes to war	J2
Thundering thro' all their aisles but now respond	A
To the death dirge of the melancholy wind	A
It were a sight of awfulness to see	C
The works of faith and slavery so vast	A
So sumptuous yet withal so perishing	K3
Even as the corpse that rests beneath their wall	L3
A thousand mourners deck the pomp of death	E
To day the breathing marble glows above	C2
To decorate its memory and tongues	C
Are busy of its life to morrow worms	C
In silence and in darkness seize their prey	A
These ruins soon leave not a wreck behind	A
Their elements wide scattered o'er the globe	W
To happier shapes are moulded and become	B
Ministrant to all blissful impulses	C
Thus human things are perfected and earth	P2
Even as a child beneath its mother's love	C2
Is strengthened in all excellence and grows	C
Fairer and nobler with each passing year	J2
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Now Time his dusky pennons o'er the scene	S2
Closes in steadfast darkness and the past	A
Fades from our charmed sight My task is done	L
Thy lore is learned Earth's wonders are thine own	M
With all the fear and all the hope they bring	K3
My spells are past the present now recurs	C
Ah me a pathless wilderness remains	C
Yet unsubdued by man's reclaiming hand	A
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Yet human Spirit bravely hold thy course	C
Let virtue teach thee firmly to pursue	C
The gradual paths of an aspiring change	U3
For birth and life and death and that strange state	A
Before the naked powers that thro' the world	A
Wander like winds have found a human home	B
All tend to perfect happiness and urge	I2
The restless wheels of being on their way	A
Whose flashing spokes instinct with infinite life	H3
Bicker and burn to gain their destined goal	L3
For birth but wakes the universal mind	A
Whose mighty streams might else in silence flow	L3
Thro' the vast world to individual sense	C
Of outward shows whose unexperienced shape	E2
New modes of passion to its frame may lend	A
Life is its state of action and the store	J2
Of all events is aggregated there	J2
That variegate the eternal universe	C
Death is a gate of dreariness and gloom	B
That leads to azure isles and beaming skies	C
And happy regions of eternal hope	B3
Therefore O Spirit fearlessly bear on	F2
Though storms may break the primrose on its stalk	K3
Though frosts may blight the freshness of its bloom	B
Yet spring's awakening breath will woo the earth	P2
To feed with kindliest dews its favourite flower	J2
That blooms in mossy banks and darksome glens	C
Lighting the green wood with its sunny smile	L3
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Fear not then Spirit death's disrobing hand	A
So welcome when the tyrant is awake	K3
So welcome when the bigot's hell torch flares	C
'Tis but the voyage of a darksome hour	J2
The transient gulf dream of a startling sleep	F
For what thou art shall perish utterly	C
But what is thine may never cease to be	C
Death is no foe to virtue earth has seen	S2
Love's brightest roses on the scaffold bloom	B
Mingling with freedom's fadeless laurels there	J2
And presaging the truth of visioned bliss	C
Are there not hopes within thee which this scene	S2
Of linked and gradual being has confirmed	A
Hopes that not vainly thou and living fires	C
Of mind as radiant and as pure as thou	J2
Have shone upon the paths of men return	T3
Surpassing Spirit to that world where thou	J2
Art destined an eternal war to wage	P3
With tyranny and falsehood and uproot	A
The germs of misery from the human heart	A
Thine is the hand whose piety would soothe	V3
The thorny pillow of unhappy crime	B
Whose impotence an easy pardon gains	C
Watching its wanderings as a friend's disease	C
Thine is the brow whose mildness would defy	Z
Its fiercest rage and brave its sternest will	L3
When fenced by power and master of the world	A
Thou art sincere and good of resolute mind	A
Free from heart withering custom's cold control	L3
Of passion lofty pure and unsubdued	A
Earth's pride and meanness could not vanquish thee	C
And therefore art thou worthy of the boon	G
Which thou hast now received virtue shall keep	F
Thy footsteps in the path that thou hast trod	A
And many days of beaming hope shall bless	C
Thy spotless life of sweet and sacred love	C2
Go happy one and give that bosom joy	W3
Whose sleepless spirit waits to catch	X3
Light life and rapture from thy smile	L3
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The Daemon called its winged ministers	C
Speechless with bliss the Spirit mounts the car	J2
That rolled beside the crystal battlement	A
Bending her beamy eyes in thankfulness	C
The burning wheels inflame	B
The steep descent of Heaven's untrodden way	A
Fast and far the chariot flew	C
The mighty globes that rolled	A
Around the gate of the Eternal Fane	M3
Lessened by slow degrees and soon appeared	A
Such tiny twinklers as the planet orbs	C
That ministering on the solar power	J2
With borrowed light pursued their narrower way	A
Earth floated then below	L3
The chariot paused a moment	A
The Spirit then descended	A
And from the earth departing	K3
The shadows with swift wings	C
Speeded like thought upon the light of Heaven	L
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The Body and the Soul united then	Y3
A gentle start convulsed Ianthe's frame	B
Her veiny eyelids quietly unclosed	A
Moveless awhile the dark blue orbs remained	A
She looked around in wonder and beheld	A
Henry who kneeled in silence by her couch	V2
Watching her sleep with looks of speechless love	C2
And the bright beaming stars	C
That through the casement shone	M

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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