The Revolt Of Islam. - Canto 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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When the last hope of trampled France had failed	B
Like a brief dream of unremaining glory	C
From visions of despair I rose and scaled	B
The peak of an aerial promontory	C
Whose caverned base with the vexed surge was hoary	C
And saw the golden dawn break forth and waken	D
Each cloud and every wave but transitory	C
The calm for sudden the firm earth was shaken	D
As if by the last wreck its frame were overtaken	D
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So as I stood one blast of muttering thunder	C
Burst in far peals along the waveless deep	E
When gathering fast around above and under	C
Long trains of tremulous mist began to creep	E
Until their complicating lines did steep	E
The orient sun in shadow not a sound	F
Was heard one horrible repose did keep	E
The forests and the floods and all around	F
Darkness more dread than night was poured upon the ground	F
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Hark 'tis the rushing of a wind that sweeps	G
Earth and the ocean See the lightnings yawn	H
Deluging Heaven with fire and the lashed deeps	G
Glitter and boil beneath it rages on	I
One mighty stream whirlwind and waves upthrown	I
Lightning and hail and darkness eddying by	J
There is a pause the sea birds that were gone	I
Into their caves to shriek come forth to spy	J
What calm has fall'n on earth what light is in the sky	J
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For where the irresistible storm had cloven	I
That fearful darkness the blue sky was seen	I
Fretted with many a fair cloud interwoven	I
Most delicately and the ocean green	I
Beneath that opening spot of blue serene	I
Quivered like burning emerald calm was spread	K
On all below but far on high between	I
Earth and the upper air the vast clouds fled	K
Countless and swift as leaves on autumn's tempest shed	K
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For ever as the war became more fierce	G
Between the whirlwinds and the rack on high	J
That spot grew more serene blue light did pierce	G
The woof of those white clouds which seem to lie	J
Far deep and motionless while through the sky	J
The pallid semicircle of the moon	I
Passed on in slow and moving majesty	C
Its upper horn arrayed in mists which soon	I
But slowly fled like dew beneath the beams of noon	I
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I could not choose but gaze a fascination	I
Dwelt in that moon and sky and clouds which drew	C
My fancy thither and in expectation	I
Of what I knew not I remained the hue	C
Of the white moon amid that heaven so blue	C
Suddenly stained with shadow did appear	C
A speck a cloud a shape approaching grew	C
Like a great ship in the sun's sinking sphere	C
Beheld afar at sea and swift it came anear	C
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Even like a bark which from a chasm of mountains	G
Dark vast and overhanging on a river	C
Which there collects the strength of all its fountains	G
Comes forth whilst with the speed its frame doth quiver	C
Sails oars and stream tending to one endeavour	C
So from that chasm of light a winged Form	L
On all the winds of heaven approaching ever	C
Floated dilating as it came the storm	L
Pursued it with fierce blasts and lightnings swift and warm	L
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A course precipitous of dizzy speed	M
Suspending thought and breath a monstrous sight	N
For in the air do I behold indeed	M
An Eagle and a Serpent wreathed in fight	N
And now relaxing its impetuous flight	N
Before the aerial rock on which I stood	O
The Eagle hovering wheeled to left and right	N
And hung with lingering wings over the flood	P
And startled with its yells the wide air's solitude	Q
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A shaft of light upon its wings descended	P
And every golden feather gleamed therein	I
Feather and scale inextricably blended	P
The Serpent's mailed and many coloured skin	I
Shone through the plumes its coils were twined within	I
By many a swoln and knotted fold and high	J
And far the neck receding lithe and thin	I
Sustained a crested head which warily	C
Shifted and glanced before the Eagle's steadfast eye	J
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Around around in ceaseless circles wheeling	R
With clang of wings and scream the Eagle sailed	B
Incessantly sometimes on high concealing	R
Its lessening orbs sometimes as if it failed	B
Drooped through the air and still it shrieked and wailed	B
And casting back its eager head with beak	S
And talon unremittingly assailed	B
The wreathed Serpent who did ever seek	S
Upon his enemy's heart a mortal wound to wreak	S
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What life what power was kindled and arose	G
Within the sphere of that appalling fray	C
For from the encounter of those wondrous foes	G
A vapour like the sea's suspended spray	C
Hung gathered in the void air far away	C
Floated the shattered plumes bright scales did leap	E
Where'er the Eagle's talons made their way	C
Like sparks into the darkness as they sweep	E
Blood stains the snowy foam of the tumultuous deep	E
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Swift chances in that combat many a check	T
And many a change a dark and wild turmoil	U
Sometimes the Snake around his enemy's neck	T
Locked in stiff rings his adamantine coil	U
Until the Eagle faint with pain and toil	U
Remitted his strong flight and near the sea	C
Languidly fluttered hopeless so to foil	U
His adversary who then reared on high	J
His red and burning crest radiant with victory	C
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Then on the white edge of the bursting surge	V
Where they had sunk together would the Snake	W
Relax his suffocating grasp and scourge	V
The wind with his wild writhings for to break	W
That chain of torment the vast bird would shake	W
The strength of his unconquerable wings	G
As in despair and with his sinewy neck	T
Dissolve in sudden shock those linked rings	G
Then soar as swift as smoke from a volcano springs	G
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Wile baffled wile and strength encountered strength	X
Thus long but unprevailing the event	Y
Of that portentous fight appeared at length	X
Until the lamp of day was almost spent	Y
It had endured when lifeless stark and rent	Y
Hung high that mighty Serpent and at last	Z
Fell to the sea while o'er the continent	A2
With clang of wings and scream the Eagle passed	Z
Heavily borne away on the exhausted blast	Z
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And with it fled the tempest so that ocean	I
And earth and sky shone through the atmosphere	C
Only 'twas strange to see the red commotion	I
Of waves like mountains o'er the sinking sphere	C
Of sunset sweep and their fierce roar to hear	C
Amid the calm down the steep path I wound	F
To the sea shore the evening was most clear	C
And beautiful and there the sea I found	F
Calm as a cradled child in dreamless slumber bound	F
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There was a Woman beautiful as morning	R
Sitting beneath the rocks upon the sand	B2
Of the waste sea fair as one flower adorning	R
An icy wilderness each delicate hand	B2
Lay crossed upon her bosom and the band	B2
Of her dark hair had fall'n and so she sate	C2
Looking upon the waves on the bare strand	B2
Upon the sea mark a small boat did wait	C2
Fair as herself like Love by Hope left desolate	D2
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It seemed that this fair Shape had looked upon	I
That unimaginable fight and now	I
That her sweet eyes were weary of the sun	I
As brightly it illustrated her woe	E2
For in the tears which silently to flow	E2
Paused not its lustre hung she watching aye	J
The foam wreaths which the faint tide wove below	E2
Upon the spangled sands groaned heavily	C
And after every groan looked up over the sea	C
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And when she saw the wounded Serpent make	W
His path between the waves her lips grew pale	F2
Parted and quivered the tears ceased to break	W
From her immovable eyes no voice of wail	F2
Escaped her but she rose and on the gale	F2
Loosening her star bright robe and shadowy hair	C
Poured forth her voice the caverns of the vale	F2
That opened to the ocean caught it there	C
And filled with silver sounds the overflowing air	C
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She spake in language whose strange melody	C
Might not belong to earth I heard alone	I
What made its music more melodious be	C
The pity and the love of every tone	I
But to the Snake those accents sweet were known	I
His native tongue and hers nor did he beat	G2
The hoar spray idly then but winding on	I
Through the green shadows of the waves that meet	G2
Near to the shore did pause beside her snowy feet	G2
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Then on the sands the Woman sate again	I
And wept and clasped her hands and all between	I
Renewed the unintelligible strain	I
Of her melodious voice and eloquent mien	I
And she unveiled her bosom and the green	I
And glancing shadows of the sea did play	C
O'er its marmoreal depth one moment seen	I
For ere the next the Serpent did obey	C
Her voice and coiled in rest in her embrace it lay	C
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Then she arose and smiled on me with eyes	G
Serene yet sorrowing like that planet fair	C
While yet the daylight lingereth in the skies	G
Which cleaves with arrowy beams the dark red air	C
And said 'To grieve is wise but the despair	C
Was weak and vain which led thee here from sleep	E
This shalt thou know and more if thou dost dare	C
With me and with this Serpent o'er the deep	E
A voyage divine and strange companionship to keep '	-
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Her voice was like the wildest saddest tone	I
Yet sweet of some loved voice heard long ago	E2
I wept 'Shall this fair woman all alone	I
Over the sea with that fierce Serpent go	E2
His head is on her heart and who can know	E2
How soon he may devour his feeble prey '	-
Such were my thoughts when the tide gan to flow	E2
And that strange boat like the moon's shade did sway	C
Amid reflected stars that in the waters lay	C
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A boat of rare device which had no sail	F2
But its own curved prow of thin moonstone	I
Wrought like a web of texture fine and frail	F2
To catch those gentlest winds which are not known	I
To breathe but by the steady speed alone	I
With which it cleaves the sparkling sea and now	I
We are embarked the mountains hang and frown	I
Over the starry deep that gleams below	E2
A vast and dim expanse as o'er the waves we go	E2
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And as we sailed a strange and awful tale	F2
That Woman told like such mysterious dream	H2
As makes the slumberer's cheek with wonder pale	F2
'Twas midnight and around a shoreless stream	H2
Wide ocean rolled when that majestic theme	H2
Shrined in her heart found utterance and she bent	Y
Her looks on mine those eyes a kindling beam	H2
Of love divine into my spirit sent	Y
And ere her lips could move made the air eloquent	A2
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'Speak not to me but hear Much shalt thou learn	I
Much must remain unthought and more untold	I2
In the dark Future's ever flowing urn	I
Know then that from the depth of ages old	I2
Two Powers o'er mortal things dominion hold	I2
Ruling the world with a divided lot	J2
Immortal all pervading manifold	I2
Twin Genii equal Gods when life and thought	K2
Sprang forth they burst the womb of inessential Nought	K2
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'The earliest dweller of the world alone	I
Stood on the verge of chaos Lo afar	C
O'er the wide wild abyss two meteors shone	I
Sprung from the depth of its tempestuous jar	C
A blood red Comet and the Morning Star	C
Mingling their beams in combat as he stood	K2
All thoughts within his mind waged mutual war	C
In dreadful sympathy when to the flood	K2
That fair Star fell he turned and shed his brother's blood	K2
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'Thus evil triumphed and the Spirit of evil	L2
One Power of many shapes which none may know	E2
One Shape of many names the Fiend did revel	L2
In victory reigning o'er a world of woe	E2
For the new race of man went to and fro	E2
Famished and homeless loathed and loathing wild	K2
And hating good for his immortal foe	E2
He changed from starry shape beauteous and mild	K2
To a dire Snake with man and beast unreconciled	K2
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'The darkness lingering o'er the dawn of things	G
Was Evil's breath and life this made him strong	M2
To soar aloft with overshadowing wings	G
And the great Spirit of Good did creep among	N2
The nations of mankind and every tongue	N2
Cursed and blasphemed him as he passed for none	I
Knew good from evil though their names were hung	N2
In mockery o'er the fane where many a groan	I
As King and Lord and God the conquering Fiend did own	I
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'The Fiend whose name was Legion Death Decay	C
Earthquake and Blight and Want and Madness pale	F2
Winged and wan diseases an array	C
Numerous as leaves that strew the autumnal gale	F2
Poison a snake in flowers beneath the veil	F2
Of food and mirth hiding his mortal head	K2
And without whom all these might nought avail	F2
Fear Hatred Faith and Tyranny who spread	K2
Those subtle nets which snare the living and the dead	K2
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'His spirit is their power and they his slaves	G
In air and light and thought and language dwell	O2
And keep their state from palaces to graves	G
In all resorts of men invisible	L2
But when in ebon mirror Nightmare fell	O2
To tyrant or impostor bids them rise	G
Black winged demon forms whom from the hell	O2
His reign and dwelling beneath nether skies	G
He loosens to their dark and blasting ministries	G
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'In the world's youth his empire was as firm	P2
As its foundations Soon the Spirit of Good	K2
Though in the likeness of a loathsome worm	P2
Sprang from the billows of the formless flood	K2
Which shrank and fled and with that Fiend of blood	K2
Renewed the doubtful war Thrones then first shook	Q2
And earth's immense and trampled multitude	K2
In hope on their own powers began to look	Q2
And Fear the demon pale his sanguine shrine forsook	Q2
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'Then Greece arose and to its bards and sages	G
In dream the golden pinioned Genii came	R2
Even where they slept amid the night of ages	G
Steeping their hearts in the divinest flame	R2
Which thy breath kindled Power of holiest name	R2
And oft in cycles since when darkness gave	S2
New weapons to thy foe their sunlike fame	R2
Upon the combat shone a light to save	S2
Like Paradise spread forth beyond the shadowy grave	S2
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'Such is this conflict when mankind doth strive	T2
With its oppressors in a strife of blood	K2
Or when free thoughts like lightnings are alive	T2
And in each bosom of the multitude	K2
Justice and truth with Custom's hydra brood	K2
Wage silent war when Priests and Kings dissemble	L2
In smiles or frowns their fierce disquietude	K2
When round pure hearts a host of hopes assemble	L2
The Snake and Eagle meet the world's foundations tremble	L2
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'Thou hast beheld that fight when to thy home	U2
Thou dost return steep not its hearth in tears	G
Though thou may'st hear that earth is now become	V2
The tyrant's garbage which to his compeers	G
The vile reward of their dishonoured years	G
He will dividing give The victor Fiend	K2
Omnipotent of yore now quails and fears	G
His triumph dearly won which soon will lend	K2
An impulse swift and sure to his approaching end	K2
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'List stranger list mine is an human form	L
Like that thou wearest touch me shrink not now	I
My hand thou feel'st is not a ghost's but warm	L
With human blood 'Twas many years ago	E2
Since first my thirsting soul aspired to know	E2
The secrets of this wondrous world when deep	E
My heart was pierced with sympathy for woe	E2
Which could not be mine own and thought did keep	E
In dream unnatural watch beside an infant's sleep	E
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'Woe could not be mine own since far from men	I
I dwelt a free and happy orphan child	K2
By the sea shore in a deep mountain glen	I
And near the waves and through the forests wild	K2
I roamed to storm and darkness reconciled	K2
For I was calm while tempest shook the sky	J
But when the breathless heavens in beauty smiled	K2
I wept sweet tears yet too tumultuously	L2
For peace and clasped my hands aloft in ecstasy	G
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'These were forebodings of my fate before	C
A woman's heart beat in my virgin breast	K2
It had been nurtured in divinest lore	C
A dying poet gave me books and blessed	K2
With wild but holy talk the sweet unrest	K2
In which I watched him as he died away	C
A youth with hoary hair a fleeting guest	K2
Of our lone mountains and this lore did sway	C
My spirit like a storm contending there alway	C
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'Thus the dark tale which history doth unfold	K2
I knew but not methinks as others know	E2
For they weep not and Wisdom had unrolled	K2
The clouds which hide the gulf of mortal woe	E2
To few can she that warning vision show	E2
For I loved all things with intense devotion	I
So that when Hope's deep source in fullest flow	E2
Like earthquake did uplift the stagnant ocean	I
Of human thoughts mine shook beneath the wide emotion	I
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'When first the living blood through all these veins	G
Kindled a thought in sense great France sprang forth	W2
And seized as if to break the ponderous chains	G
Which bind in woe the nations of the earth	X2
I saw and started from my cottage hearth	Y2
And to the clouds and waves in tameless gladness	G
Shrieked till they caught immeasurable mirth	X2
And laughed in light and music soon sweet madness	G
Was poured upon my heart a soft and thrilling sadness	G
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'Deep slumber fell on me my dreams were fire	C
Soft and delightful thoughts did rest and hover	C
Like shadows o'er my brain and strange desire	C
The tempest of a passion raging over	C
My tranquil soul its depths with light did cover	C
Which passed and calm and darkness sweeter far	C
Came then I loved but not a human lover	C
For when I rose from sleep the Morning Star	C
Shone through the woodbine wreaths which round my casement were	C
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''Twas like an eye which seemed to smile on me	G
I watched till by the sun made pale it sank	Z2
Under the billows of the heaving sea	G
But from its beams deep love my spirit drank	Z2
And to my brain the boundless world now shrank	Z2
Into one thought one image yes for ever	C
Even like the dayspring poured on vapours dank	Z2
The beams of that one Star did shoot and quiver	C
Through my benighted mind and were extinguished never	C
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'The day passed thus at night methought in dream	H2
A shape of speechless beauty did appear	C
It stood like light on a careering stream	H2
Of golden clouds which shook the atmosphere	C
A winged youth his radiant brow did wear	C
The Morning Star a wild dissolving bliss	G
Over my frame he breathed approaching near	C
And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness	G
Near mine and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss	G
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'And said A Spirit loves thee mortal maiden	I
How wilt thou prove thy worth Then joy and sleep	E
Together fled my soul was deeply laden	I
And to the shore I went to muse and weep	E
But as I moved over my heart did creep	E
A joy less soft but more profound and strong	M2
Than my sweet dream and it forbade to keep	E
The path of the sea shore that Spirit's tongue	N2
Seemed whispering in my heart and bore my steps along	M2
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'How to that vast and peopled city led	K2
Which was a field of holy warfare then	I
I walked among the dying and the dead	K2
And shared in fearless deeds with evil men	I
Calm as an angel in the dragon's den	I
How I braved death for liberty and truth	A3
And spurned at peace and power and fame and when	I
Those hopes had lost the glory of their youth	A3
How sadly I returned might move the hearer's ruth	A3
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'Warm tears throng fast the tale may not be said	K2
Know then that when this grief had been subdued	K2
I was not left like others cold and dead	K2
The Spirit whom I loved in solitude	K2
Sustained his child the tempest shaken wood	K2
The waves the fountains and the hush of night	K2
These were his voice and well I understood	K2
His smile divine when the calm sea was bright	K2
With silent stars and Heaven was breathless with delight	K2
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'In lonely glens amid the roar of rivers	G
When the dim nights were moonless have I known	I
Joys which no tongue can tell my pale lip quivers	G
When thought revisits them know thou alone	I
That after many wondrous years were flown	I
I was awakened by a shriek of woe	E2
And over me a mystic robe was thrown	I
By viewless hands and a bright Star did glow	E2
Before my steps the Snake then met his mortal foe '	-
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'Thou fearest not then the Serpent on thy heart '	-
'Fear it ' she said with brief and passionate cry	J
And spake no more that silence made me start	K2
I looked and we were sailing pleasantly	G
Swift as a cloud between the sea and sky	J
Beneath the rising moon seen far away	C
Mountains of ice like sapphire piled on high	J
Hemming the horizon round in silence lay	C
On the still waters these we did approach alway	C
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And swift and swifter grew the vessel's motion	I
So that a dizzy trance fell on my brain	I
Wild music woke me we had passed the ocean	I
Which girds the pole Nature's remotest reign	I
And we glode fast o'er a pellucid plain	I
Of waters azure with the noontide day	C
Ethereal mountains shone around a Fane	I
Stood in the midst girt by green isles which lay	C
On the blue sunny deep resplendent far away	C
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It was a Temple such as mortal hand	K2
Has never built nor ecstasy nor dream	H2
Reared in the cities of enchanted land	K2
'Twas likest Heaven ere yet day's purple stream	H2
Ebbs o'er the western forest while the gleam	H2
Of the unrisen moon among the clouds	G
Is gathering when with many a golden beam	H2
The thronging constellations rush in crowds	G
Paving with fire the sky and the marmoreal floods	G
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Like what may be conceived of this vast dome	U2
When from the depths which thought can seldom pierce	G
Genius beholds it rise his native home	U2
Girt by the deserts of the Universe	G
Yet nor in painting's light or mightier verse	G
Or sculpture's marble language can invest	K2
That shape to mortal sense such glooms immerse	G
That incommunicable sight and rest	K2
Upon the labouring brain and overburdened breast	K2
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Winding among the lawny islands fair	C
Whose blosmy forests starred the shadowy deep	E
The wingless boat paused where an ivory stair	C
Its fretwork in the crystal sea did steep	E
Encircling that vast Fane's aerial heap	E
We disembarked and through a portal wide	K2
We passed whose roof of moonstone carved did keep	E
A glimmering o'er the forms on every side	K2
Sculptures like life and thought immovable deep eyed	K2
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We came to a vast hall whose glorious roof	B3
Was diamond which had drunk the lightning's sheen	I
In darkness and now poured it through the woof	B3
Of spell inwoven clouds hung there to screen	I
Its blinding splendour through such veil was seen	I
That work of subtlest power divine and rare	C
Orb above orb with starry shapes between	I
And horned moons and meteors strange and fair	C
On night black columns poised one hollow hemisphere	C
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Ten thousand columns in that quivering light	K2
Distinct between whose shafts wound far away	C
The long and labyrinthine aisles more bright	K2
With their own radiance than the Heaven of Day	C
And on the jasper walls around there lay	C
Paintings the poesy of mightiest thought	K2
Which did the Spirit's history display	C
A tale of passionate change divinely taught	K2
Which in their winged dance unconscious Genii wrought	K2
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Beneath there sate on many a sapphire throne	I
The Great who had departed from mankind	K2
A mighty Senate some whose white hair shone	I
Like mountain snow mild beautiful and blind	K2
Some female forms whose gestures beamed with mind	K2
And ardent youths and children bright and fair	C
And some had lyres whose strings were intertwined	K2
With pale and clinging flames which ever there	C
Waked faint yet thrilling sounds that pierced the crystal air	C
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One seat was vacant in the midst a throne	I
Reared on a pyramid like sculptured flame	R2
Distinct with circling steps which rested on	I
Their own deep fire soon as the Woman came	R2
Into that hall she shrieked the Spirit's name	R2
And fell and vanished slowly from the sight	K2
Darkness arose from her dissolving frame	R2
Which gathering filled that dome of woven light	K2
Blotting its sphered stars with supernatural night	K2
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Then first two glittering lights were seen to glide	K2
In circles on the amethystine floor	C
Small serpent eyes trailing from side to side	K2
Like meteors on a river's grassy shore	C
They round each other rolled dilating more	C
And more then rose commingling into one	I
One clear and mighty planet hanging o'er	C
A cloud of deepest shadow which was thrown	I
Athwart the glowing steps and the crystalline throne	I
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The cloud which rested on that cone of flame	R2
Was cloven beneath the planet sate a Form	L
Fairer than tongue can speak or thought may frame	R2
The radiance of whose limbs rose like and warm	L
Flowed forth and did with softest light inform	L
The shadowy dome the sculptures and the state	K2
Of those assembled shapes with clinging charm	C3
Sinking upon their hearts and mine He sate	K2
Majestic yet most mild calm yet compassionate	K2
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Wonder and joy a passing faintness threw	C
Over my brow a hand supported me	G
Whose touch was magic strength an eye of blue	C
Looked into mine like moonlight soothingly	G
And a voice said 'Thou must a listener be	G
This day two mighty Spirits now return	I
Like birds of calm from the world's raging sea	G
They pour fresh light from Hope's immortal urn	I
A tale of human power despair not list and learn	I
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I looked and lo one stood forth eloquently	G
His eyes were dark and deep and the clear brow	I
Which shadowed them was like the morning sky	J
The cloudless Heaven of Spring when in their flow	E2
Through the bright air the soft winds as they blow	E2
Wake the green world his gestures did obey	C
The oracular mind that made his features glow	E2
And where his curved lips half open lay	C
Passion's divinest stream had made impetuous way	C
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Beneath the darkness of his outspread hair	C
He stood thus beautiful but there was One	I
Who sate beside him like his shadow there	C
And held his hand far lovelier she was known	I
To be thus fair by the few lines alone	I
Which through her floating locks and gathered cloak	D3
Glances of soul dissolving glory shone	I
None else beheld her eyes in him they woke	D3
Memories which found a tongue as thus he silence broke	D3

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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