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A scene which 'wildered fancy viewed	A
In the soul's coldest solitude	A
With that same scene when peaceful love	B
Flings rapture's colour o'er the grove	C
When mountain meadow wood and stream	D
With unalloying glory gleam	D
And to the spirit's ear and eye	E
Are unison and harmony	F
The moonlight was my dearer day	G
Then would I wander far away	G
And lingering on the wild brook's shore	H
To hear its unremitting roar	H
Would lose in the ideal flow	I
All sense of overwhelming woe	I
Or at the noiseless noon of night	J
Would climb some heathy mountain's height	J
And listen to the mystic sound	K
That stole in fitful gasps around	K
I joyed to see the streaks of day	G
Above the purple peaks decay	G
And watch the latest line of light	J
Just mingling with the shades of night	J
For day with me was time of woe	I
When even tears refused to flow	I
Then would I stretch my languid frame	L
Beneath the wild woods' gloomiest shade	M
And try to quench the ceaseless flame	L
That on my withered vitals preyed	M
Would close mine eyes and dream I were	N
On some remote and friendless plain	O
And long to leave existence there	P
If with it I might leave the pain	O
That with a finger cold and lean	Q
Wrote madness on my withering mien	Q
	-
It was not unrequited love	B
That bade my wildered spirit rove	C
'Twas not the pride disdaining life	R
That with this mortal world at strife	R
Would yield to the soul's inward sense	S
Then groan in human impotence	T
And weep because it is not given	U
To taste on Earth the peace of Heaven	U
'Twas not that in the narrow sphere	V
Where Nature fixed my wayward fate	W
There was no friend or kindred dear	V
Formed to become that spirit's mate	W
Which searching on tired pinion found	K
Barren and cold repulse around	K
Oh no yet each one sorrow gave	X
New graces to the narrow grave	X
For broken vows had early quelled	Y
The stainless spirit's vestal flame	L
Yes whilst the faithful bosom swelled	Y
Then the envenomed arrow came	L
And Apathy's unaltering eye	E
Beamed coldness on the misery	F
And early I had learned to scorn	Z
The chains of clay that bound a soul	A2
Panting to seize the wings of morn	Z
And where its vital fires were born	Z
To soar and spur the cold control	A2
Which the vile slaves of earthly night	J
Would twine around its struggling flight	J
	-
Oh many were the friends whom fame	L
Had linked with the unmeaning name	L
Whose magic marked among mankind	B2
The casket of my unknown mind	B2
Which hidden from the vulgar glare	P
Imbibed no fleeting radiance there	P
My darksome spirit sought it found	K
A friendless solitude around	K
For who that might undaunted stand	C2
The saviour of a sinking land	C2
Would crawl its ruthless tyrant's slave	X
And fatten upon Freedom's grave	X
Though doomed with her to perish where	P
The captive clasps abhorred despair	P
	-
They could not share the bosom's feeling	D2
Which passion's every throb revealing	D2
Dared force on the world's notice cold	E2
Thoughts of unprofitable mould	E2
Who bask in Custom's fickle ray	G
Fit sunshine of such wintry day	G
They could not in a twilight walk	F2
Weave an impassioned web of talk	F2
Till mysteries the spirits press	G2
In wild yet tender awfulness	H2
Then feel within our narrow sphere	V
How little yet how great we are	I2
But they might shine in courtly glare	P
Attract the rabble's cheapest stare	P
And might command where'er they move	J2
A thing that bears the name of love	B
They might be learned witty gay	G
Foremost in fashion's gilt array	G
On Fame's emblazoned pages shine	K2
Be princes' friends but never mine	K2
	-
Ye jagged peaks that frown sublime	L2
Mocking the blunted scythe of Time	L2
Whence I would watch its lustre pale	M2
Steal from the moon o'er yonder vale	M2
Thou rock whose bosom black and vast	N2
Bared to the stream's unceasing flow	I
Ever its giant shade doth cast	N2
On the tumultuous surge below	I
	-
Woods to whose depths retires to die	E
The wounded Echo's melody	F
And whither this lone spirit bent	O2
The footstep of a wild intent	O2
	-
Meadows whose green and spangled breast	P2
These fevered limbs have often pressed	P2
Until the watchful fiend Despair	P
Slept in the soothing coolness there	P
Have not your varied beauties seen	Q
The sunken eye the withering mien	Q
Sad traces of the unuttered pain	O
That froze my heart and burned my brain	O
How changed since Nature's summer form	Q2
Had last the power my grief to charm	R2
Since last ye soothed my spirit's sadness	H2
Strange chaos of a mingled madness	H2
Changed not the loathsome worm that fed	S2
In the dark mansions of the dead	S2
Now soaring through the fields of air	P
And gathering purest nectar there	P
A butterfly whose million hues	T2
The dazzled eye of wonder views	T2
Long lingering on a work so strange	U2
Has undergone so bright a change	U2
How do I feel my happiness	H2
I cannot tell but they may guess	G2
Whose every gloomy feeling gone	V2
Friendship and passion feel alone	W2
Who see mortality's dull clouds	X2
Before affection's murmur fly	E
Whilst the mild glances of her eye	E
Pierce the thin veil of flesh that shrouds	X2
The spirit's inmost sanctuary	F
O thou whose virtues latest known	W2
First in this heart yet claim'st a throne	W2
Whose downy sceptre still shall share	P
The gentle sway with virtue there	P
Thou fair in form and pure in mind	B2
Whose ardent friendship rivets fast	N2
The flowery band our fates that bind	B2
Which incorruptible shall last	N2
When duty's hard and cold control	A2
Has thawed around the burning soul	A2
The gloomiest retrospects that bind	B2
With crowns of thorn the bleeding mind	B2
The prospects of most doubtful hue	Y2
That rise on Fancy's shuddering view	Y2
Are gilt by the reviving ray	G
Which thou hast flung upon my day	G

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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