The Revolt Of Islam. - Canto 6 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Beside the dimness of the glimmering sea	B
Weaving swift language from impassioned themes	C
With that dear friend I lingered who to me	B
So late had been restored beneath the gleams	C
Of the silver stars and ever in soft dreams	C
Of future love and peace sweet converse lapped	D
Our willing fancies till the pallid beams	C
Of the last watchfire fell and darkness wrapped	D
The waves and each bright chain of floating fire was snapped	D
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And till we came even to the City's wall	E
And the great gate then none knew whence or why	F
Disquiet on the multitudes did fall	E
And first one pale and breathless passed us by	F
And stared and spoke not then with piercing cry	F
A troop of wild eyed women by the shrieks	G
Of their own terror driven tumultuously	E
Hither and thither hurrying with pale cheeks	G
Each one from fear unknown a sudden refuge seeks	G
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Then rallying cries of treason and of danger	H
Resounded and 'They come to arms to arms	I
The Tyrant is amongst us and the stranger	H
Comes to enslave us in his name to arms '	-
In vain for Panic the pale fiend who charms	I
Strength to forswear her right those millions swept	J
Like waves before the tempest these alarms	I
Came to me as to know their cause I lept	J
On the gate's turret and in rage and grief and scorn I wept	J
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For to the North I saw the town on fire	H
And its red light made morning pallid now	K
Which burst over wide Asia louder higher	H
The yells of victory and the screams of woe	L
I heard approach and saw the throng below	L
Stream through the gates like foam wrought waterfalls	M
Fed from a thousand storms the fearful glow	L
Of bombs flares overhead at intervals	N
The red artillery's bolt mangling among them falls	M
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And now the horsemen come and all was done	O
Swifter than I have spoken I beheld	J
Their red swords flash in the unrisen sun	O
I rushed among the rout to have repelled	J
That miserable flight one moment quelled	J
By voice and looks and eloquent despair	P
As if reproach from their own hearts withheld	J
Their steps they stood but soon came pouring there	P
New multitudes and did those rallied bands o'erbear	P
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I strove as drifted on some cataract	J
By irresistible streams some wretch might strive	Q
Who hears its fatal roar the files compact	J
Whelmed me and from the gate availed to drive	Q
With quickening impulse as each bolt did rive	Q
Their ranks with bloodier chasm into the plain	R
Disgorged at length the dead and the alive	Q
In one dread mass were parted and the stain	R
Of blood from mortal steel fell o'er the fields like rain	R
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For now the despot's bloodhounds with their prey	P
Unarmed and unaware were gorging deep	S
Their gluttony of death the loose array	P
Of horsemen o'er the wide fields murdering sweep	S
And with loud laughter for their tyrant reap	S
A harvest sown with other hopes the while	E
Far overhead ships from Propontis keep	S
A killing rain of fire when the waves smile	E
As sudden earthquakes light many a volcano isle	E
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Thus sudden unexpected feast was spread	J
For the carrion fowls of Heaven I saw the sight	J
I moved I lived as o'er the heaps of dead	J
Whose stony eyes glared in the morning light	J
I trod to me there came no thought of flight	J
But with loud cries of scorn which whoso heard	J
That dreaded death felt in his veins the might	J
Of virtuous shame return the crowd I stirred	J
And desperation's hope in many hearts recurred	J
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A band of brothers gathering round me made	J
Although unarmed a steadfast front and still	E
Retreating with stern looks beneath the shade	J
Of gathered eyebrows did the victors fill	E
With doubt even in success deliberate will	E
Inspired our growing troop not overthrown	T
It gained the shelter of a grassy hill	E
And ever still our comrades were hewn down	U
And their defenceless limbs beneath our footsteps strown	U
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Immovably we stood in joy I found	J
Beside me then firm as a giant pine	U
Among the mountain vapours driven around	J
The old man whom I loved his eyes divine	U
With a mild look of courage answered mine	U
And my young friend was near and ardently	E
His hand grasped mine a moment now the line	U
Of war extended to our rallying cry	P
As myriads flocked in love and brotherhood to die	P
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For ever while the sun was climbing Heaven	U
The horseman hewed our unarmed myriads down	U
Safely though when by thirst of carnage driven	U
Too near those slaves were swiftly overthrown	U
By hundreds leaping on them flesh and bone	U
Soon made our ghastly ramparts then the shaft	J
Of the artillery from the sea was thrown	U
More fast and fiery and the conquerors laughed	J
In pride to hear the wind our screams of torment waft	J
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For on one side alone the hill gave shelter	P
So vast that phalanx of unconquered men	U
And there the living in the blood did welter	P
Of the dead and dying which in that green glen	U
Like stifled torrents made a plashy fen	U
Under the feet thus was the butchery waged	J
While the sun clomb Heaven's eastern steep but when	U
It 'gan to sink a fiercer combat raged	J
For in more doubtful strife the armies were engaged	J
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Within a cave upon the hill were found	J
A bundle of rude pikes the instrument	J
Of those who war but on their native ground	J
For natural rights a shout of joyance sent	J
Even from our hearts the wide air pierced and rent	J
As those few arms the bravest and the best	J
Seized and each sixth thus armed did now present	J
A line which covered and sustained the rest	J
A confident phalanx which the foes on every side invest	J
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That onset turned the foes to flight almost	J
But soon they saw their present strength and knew	U
That coming night would to our resolute host	J
Bring victory so dismounting close they drew	U
Their glittering files and then the combat grew	U
Unequal but most horrible and ever	P
Our myriads whom the swift bolt overthrew	U
Or the red sword failed like a mountain river	P
Which rushes forth in foam to sink in sands for ever	P
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Sorrow and shame to see with their own kind	J
Our human brethren mix like beasts of blood	J
To mutual ruin armed by one behind	J
Who sits and scoffs That friend so mild and good	J
Who like its shadow near my youth had stood	J
Was stabbed my old preserver's hoary hair	P
With the flesh clinging to its roots was strewed	J
Under my feet I lost all sense or care	P
And like the rest I grew desperate and unaware	P
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The battle became ghastlier in the midst	J
I paused and saw how ugly and how fell	E
O Hate thou art even when thy life thou shedd'st	J
For love The ground in many a little dell	E
Was broken up and down whose steeps befell	E
Alternate victory and defeat and there	P
The combatants with rage most horrible	E
Strove and their eyes started with cracking stare	P
And impotent their tongues they lolled into the air	P
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Flaccid and foamy like a mad dog's hanging	V
Want and Moon madness and the pest's swift Bane	U
When its shafts smite while yet its bow is twanging	V
Have each their mark and sign some ghastly stain	U
And this was thine O War of hate and pain	U
Thou loathed slave I saw all shapes of death	W
And ministered to many o'er the plain	U
While carnage in the sunbeam's warmth did seethe	X
Till twilight o'er the east wove her serenest wreath	Y
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The few who yet survived resolute and firm	Z
Around me fought At the decline of day	J
Winding above the mountain's snowy term	Z
New banners shone they quivered in the ray	J
Of the sun's unseen orb ere night the array	J
Of fresh troops hemmed us in of those brave bands	A2
I soon survived alone and now I lay	J
Vanquished and faint the grasp of bloody hands	A2
I felt and saw on high the glare of falling brands	A2
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When on my foes a sudden terror came	B2
And they fled scattering lo with reinless speed	J
A black Tartarian horse of giant frame	B2
Comes trampling over the dead the living bleed	J
Beneath the hoofs of that tremendous steed	J
On which like to an Angel robed in white	J
Sate one waving a sword the hosts recede	J
And fly as through their ranks with awful might	J
Sweeps in the shadow of eve that Phantom swift and bright	J
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And its path made a solitude I rose	C2
And marked its coming it relaxed its course	D2
As it approached me and the wind that flows	C2
Through night bore accents to mine ear whose force	D2
Might create smiles in death the Tartar horse	D2
Paused and I saw the shape its might which swayed	J
And heard her musical pants like the sweet source	D2
Of waters in the desert as she said	J
'Mount with me Laon now' I rapidly obeyed	J
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Then 'Away away ' she cried and stretched her sword	J
As 'twere a scourge over the courser's head	J
And lightly shook the reins We spake no word	J
But like the vapour of the tempest fled	J
Over the plain her dark hair was dispread	J
Like the pine's locks upon the lingering blast	J
Over mine eyes its shadowy strings it spread	J
Fitfully and the hills and streams fled fast	J
As o'er their glimmering forms the steed's broad shadow passed	J
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And his hoofs ground the rocks to fire and dust	J
His strong sides made the torrents rise in spray	J
And turbulence as of a whirlwind's gust	J
Surrounded us and still away away	J
Through the desert night we sped while she alway	J
Gazed on a mountain which we neared whose crest	J
Crowned with a marble ruin in the ray	J
Of the obscure stars gleamed its rugged breast	J
The steed strained up and then his impulse did arrest	J
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A rocky hill which overhung the Ocean	U
From that lone ruin when the steed that panted	J
Paused might be heard the murmur of the motion	U
Of waters as in spots for ever haunted	J
By the choicest winds of Heaven which are enchanted	J
To music by the wand of Solitude	J
That wizard wild and the far tents implanted	J
Upon the plain be seen by those who stood	J
Thence marking the dark shore of Ocean's curved flood	J
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One moment these were heard and seen another	P
Passed and the two who stood beneath that night	J
Each only heard or saw or felt the other	P
As from the lofty steed she did alight	J
Cythna for from the eyes whose deepest light	J
Of love and sadness made my lips feel pale	E
With influence strange of mournfullest delight	J
My own sweet Cythna looked with joy did quail	E
And felt her strength in tears of human weakness fail	E
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And for a space in my embrace she rested	J
Her head on my unquiet heart reposing	V
While my faint arms her languid frame invested	J
At length she looked on me and half unclosing	V
Her tremulous lips said 'Friend thy bands were losing	V
The battle as I stood before the King	V
In bonds I burst them then and swiftly choosing	V
The time did seize a Tartar's sword and spring	V
Upon his horse and swift as on the whirlwind's wing	V
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'Have thou and I been borne beyond pursuer	P
And we are here ' Then turning to the steed	J
She pressed the white moon on his front with pure	P
And rose like lips and many a fragrant weed	J
From the green ruin plucked that he might feed	J
But I to a stone seat that Maiden led	J
And kissing her fair eyes said 'Thou hast need	J
Of rest ' and I heaped up the courser's bed	J
In a green mossy nook with mountain flowers dispread	J
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Within that ruin where a shattered portal	E
Looks to the eastern stars abandoned now	U
By man to be the home of things immortal	E
Memories like awful ghosts which come and go	V
And must inherit all he builds below	V
When he is gone a hall stood o'er whose roof	Q
Fair clinging weeds with ivy pale did grow	V
Clasping its gray rents with a verdurous woof	Q
A hanging dome of leaves a canopy moon proof	Q
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The autumnal winds as if spell bound had made	J
A natural couch of leaves in that recess	E2
Which seasons none disturbed but in the shade	J
Of flowering parasites did Spring love to dress	E2
With their sweet blooms the wintry loneliness	F2
Of those dead leaves shedding their stars whene'er	V
The wandering wind her nurslings might caress	E2
Whose intertwining fingers ever there	V
Made music wild and soft that filled the listening air	V
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We know not where we go or what sweet dream	G2
May pilot us through caverns strange and fair	V
Of far and pathless passion while the stream	G2
Of life our bark doth on its whirlpools bear	V
Spreading swift wings as sails to the dim air	V
Nor should we seek to know so the devotion	U
Of love and gentle thoughts be heard still there	V
Louder and louder from the utmost Ocean	U
Of universal life attuning its commotion	U
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To the pure all things are pure Oblivion wrapped	J
Our spirits and the fearful overthrow	V
Of public hope was from our being snapped	J
Though linked years had bound it there for now	U
A power a thirst a knowledge which below	V
All thoughts like light beyond the atmosphere	V
Clothing its clouds with grace doth ever flow	V
Came on us as we sate in silence there	V
Beneath the golden stars of the clear azure air	V
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In silence which doth follow talk that causes	H2
The baffled heart to speak with sighs and tears	I2
When wildering passion swalloweth up the pauses	H2
Of inexpressive speech the youthful years	J2
Which we together passed their hopes and fears	J2
The blood itself which ran within our frames	K2
That likeness of the features which endears	K2
The thoughts expressed by them our very names	K2
And all the winged hours which speechless memory claims	K2
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Had found a voice and ere that voice did pass	K2
The night grew damp and dim and through a rent	J
Of the ruin where we sate from the morass	K2
A wandering Meteor by some wild wind sent	J
Hung high in the green dome to which it lent	J
A faint and pallid lustre while the song	V
Of blasts in which its blue hair quivering bent	J
Strewed strangest sounds the moving leaves among	V
A wondrous light the sound as of a spirit's tongue	V
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The Meteor showed the leaves on which we sate	J
And Cythna's glowing arms and the thick ties	K2
Of her soft hair which bent with gathered weight	J
My neck near hers her dark and deepening eyes	K2
Which as twin phantoms of one star that lies	K2
O'er a dim well move though the star reposes	K2
Swam in our mute and liquid ecstasies	K2
Her marble brow and eager lips like roses	K2
With their own fragrance pale which Spring but half uncloses	K2
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The Meteor to its far morass returned	J
The beating of our veins one interval	E
Made still and then I felt the blood that burned	J
Within her frame mingle with mine and fall	E
Around my heart like fire and over all	E
A mist was spread the sickness of a deep	S
And speechless swoon of joy as might befall	E
Two disunited spirits when they leap	S
In union from this earth's obscure and fading sleep	S
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Was it one moment that confounded thus	K2
All thought all sense all feeling into one	U
Unutterable power which shielded us	K2
Even from our own cold looks when we had gone	U
Into a wide and wild oblivion	U
Of tumult and of tenderness or now	U
Had ages such as make the moon and sun	U
The seasons and mankind their changes know	V
Left fear and time unfelt by us alone below	V
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I know not What are kisses whose fire clasps	K2
The failing heart in languishment or limb	L2
Twined within limb or the quick dying gasps	K2
Of the life meeting when the faint eyes swim	L2
Through tears of a wide mist boundless and dim	L2
In one caress What is the strong control	E
Which leads the heart that dizzy steep to climb	M2
Where far over the world those vapours roll	E
Which blend two restless frames in one reposing soul	E
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It is the shadow which doth float unseen	U
But not unfelt o'er blind mortality	J
Whose divine darkness fled not from that green	U
And lone recess where lapped in peace did lie	P
Our linked frames till from the changing sky	P
That night and still another day had fled	J
And then I saw and felt The moon was high	P
And clouds as of a coming storm were spread	J
Under its orb loud winds were gathering overhead	J
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Cythna's sweet lips seemed lurid in the moon	U
Her fairest limbs with the night wind were chill	E
And her dark tresses were all loosely strewn	U
O'er her pale bosom all within was still	E
And the sweet peace of joy did almost fill	E
The depth of her unfathomable look	V
And we sate calmly though that rocky hill	E
The waves contending in its caverns strook	V
For they foreknew the storm and the gray ruin shook	V
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There we unheeding sate in the communion	U
Of interchanged vows which with a rite	J
Of faith most sweet and sacred stamped our union	U
Few were the living hearts which could unite	J
Like ours or celebrate a bridal night	J
With such close sympathies for they had sprung	V
From linked youth and from the gentle might	J
Of earliest love delayed and cherished long	V
Which common hopes and fears made like a tempest strong	V
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And such is Nature's law divine that those	K2
Who grow together cannot choose but love	Q
If faith or custom do not interpose	K2
Or common slavery mar what else might move	Q
All gentlest thoughts as in the sacred grove	Q
Which shades the springs of Ethiopian Nile	E
That living tree which if the arrowy dove	Q
Strike with her shadow shrinks in fear awhile	E
But its own kindred leaves clasps while the sunbeams smile	E
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And clings to them when darkness may dissever	V
The close caresses of all duller plants	K2
Which bloom on the wide earth thus we for ever	V
Were linked for love had nursed us in the haunts	K2
Where knowledge from its secret source enchants	K2
Young hearts with the fresh music of its springing	V
Ere yet its gathered flood feeds human wants	K2
As the great Nile feeds Egypt ever flinging	V
Light on the woven boughs which o'er its waves are swinging	V
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The tones of Cythna's voice like echoes were	V
Of those far murmuring streams they rose and fell	E
Mixed with mine own in the tempestuous air	V
And so we sate until our talk befell	E
Of the late ruin swift and horrible	E
And how those seeds of hope might yet be sown	U
Whose fruit is evil's mortal poison well	E
For us this ruin made a watch tower lone	U
But Cythna's eyes looked faint and now two days were gone	U
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Since she had food therefore I did awaken	U
The Tartar steed who from his ebon mane	U
Soon as the clinging slumbers he had shaken	U
Bent his thin head to seek the brazen rein	U
Following me obediently with pain	U
Of heart so deep and dread that one caress	K2
When lips and heart refuse to part again	U
Till they have told their fill could scarce express	K2
The anguish of her mute and fearful tenderness	K2
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Cythna beheld me part as I bestrode	J
That willing steed the tempest and the night	J
Which gave my path its safety as I rode	J
Down the ravine of rocks did soon unite	J
The darkness and the tumult of their might	J
Borne on all winds Far through the streaming rain	U
Floating at intervals the garments white	J
Of Cythna gleamed and her voice once again	U
Came to me on the gust and soon I reached the plain	U
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I dreaded not the tempest nor did he	J
Who bore me but his eyeballs wide and red	J
Turned on the lightning's cleft exultingly	E
And when the earth beneath his tameless tread	J
Shook with the sullen thunder he would spread	J
His nostrils to the blast and joyously	E
Mock the fierce peal with neighings thus we sped	J
O'er the lit plain and soon I could descry	V
Where Death and Fire had gorged the spoil of victory	V
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There was a desolate village in a wood	J
Whose bloom inwoven leaves now scattering fed	J
The hungry storm it was a place of blood	J
A heap of hearthless walls the flames were dead	J
Within those dwellings now the life had fled	J
From all those corpses now but the wide sky	V
Flooded with lightning was ribbed overhead	J
By the black rafters and around did lie	V
Women and babes and men slaughtered confusedly	V
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Beside the fountain in the market place	K2
Dismounting I beheld those corpses stare	V
With horny eyes upon each other's face	K2
And on the earth and on the vacant air	V
And upon me close to the waters where	V
I stooped to slake my thirst I shrank to taste	J
For the salt bitterness of blood was there	V
But tied the steed beside and sought in haste	J
If any yet survived amid that ghastly waste	J
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No living thing was there beside one woman	U
Whom I found wandering in the streets and she	V
Was withered from a likeness of aught human	U
Into a fiend by some strange misery	V
Soon as she heard my steps she leaped on me	V
And glued her burning lips to mine and laughed	J
With a loud long and frantic laugh of glee	V
And cried 'Now Mortal thou hast deeply quaffed	J
The Plague's blue kisses soon millions shall pledge the draught	J
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'My name is Pestilence this bosom dry	V
Once fed two babes a sister and a brother	V
When I came home one in the blood did lie	V
Of three death wounds the flames had ate the other	V
Since then I have no longer been a mother	V
But I am Pestilence hither and thither	V
I flit about that I may slay and smother	V
All lips which I have kissed must surely wither	V
But Death's if thou art he we'll go to work together	V
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'What seek'st thou here The moonlight comes in flashes	K2
The dew is rising dankly from the dell	V
'Twill moisten her and thou shalt see the gashes	K2
In my sweet boy now full of worms but tell	V
First what thou seek'st ' 'I seek for food ' ''Tis well	V
Thou shalt have food Famine my paramour	V
Waits for us at the feast cruel and fell	V
Is Famine but he drives not from his door	V
Those whom these lips have kissed alone No more no more '	-
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As thus she spake she grasped me with the strength	N2
Of madness and by many a ruined hearth	O2
She led and over many a corpse at length	N2
We came to a lone hut where on the earth	P2
Which made its floor she in her ghastly mirth	P2
Gathering from all those homes now desolate	J
Had piled three heaps of loaves making a dearth	P2
Among the dead round which she set in state	J
A ring of cold stiff babes silent and stark they sate	J
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She leaped upon a pile and lifted high	V
Her mad looks to the lightning and cried 'Eat	J
Share the great feast to morrow we must die '	-
And then she spurned the loaves with her pale feet	J
Towards her bloodless guests that sight to meet	J
Mine eyes and my heart ached and but that she	V
Who loved me did with absent looks defeat	J
Despair I might have raved in sympathy	V
But now I took the food that woman offered me	V
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And vainly having with her madness striven	U
If I might win her to return with me	V
Departed In the eastern beams of Heaven	U
The lightning now grew pallid rapidly	V
As by the shore of the tempestuous sea	V
The dark steed bore me and the mountain gray	V
Soon echoed to his hoofs and I could see	V
Cythna among the rocks where she alway	J
Had sate with anxious eyes fixed on the lingering day	V
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And joy was ours to meet she was most pale	V
Famished and wet and weary so I cast	J
My arms around her lest her steps should fail	V
As to our home we went and thus embraced	J
Her full heart seemed a deeper joy to taste	J
Than e'er the prosperous know the steed behind	J
Trod peacefully along the mountain waste	J
We reached our home ere morning could unbind	J
Night's latest veil and on our bridal couch reclined	J
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Her chilled heart having cherished in my bosom	Q2
And sweetest kisses past we two did share	V
Our peaceful meal as an autumnal blossom	Q2
Which spreads its shrunk leaves in the sunny air	V
After cold showers like rainbows woven there	V
Thus in her lips and cheeks the vital spirit	J
Mantled and in her eyes an atmosphere	V
Of health and hope and sorrow languished near it	J
And fear and all that dark despondence doth inherit	J

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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