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FRAGMENT: 'WHEN SOFT WINDS AND SUNNY SKIES'

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, P. W., 1839, 1st ed.]

When soft winds and sunny skies
With the green earth harmonize,
And the young and dewy dawn,
Bold as an unhunted fawn,
Up the windless heaven is gone,— 5
Laugh—for ambushed in the day,—
Clouds and whirlwinds watch their prey.

 

FRAGMENT: 'AND THAT I WALK THUS PROUDLY CROWNED'

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, P. W, 1839, 1st ed.]

And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal
Is that 'tis^[1] my distinction; if I fall,
I shall not weep out of the vital day,
To-morrow dust, nor wear a dull decay.

 

FRAGMENT: 'THE RUDE WIND IS SINGING'

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, P. W, 1839, 1st ed.]

The rude wind is singing
 The dirge of the music dead;
The cold worms are clinging
 Where kisses were lately fed.

 

FRAGMENT: 'GREAT SPIRIT'

[Published by Rossetti, Complete P. W. of P. B. S., 1870.]

Great Spirit whom the sea of boundless thought
 Nurtures within its unimagined caves,
In which thou sittest sole, as in my mind,
 Giving a voice to its mysterious waves—

 

FRAGMENT: 'O THOU IMMORTAL DEITY'

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, P. W, 1839, 2nd ed.]

 O thou immortal deity
Whose throne is in the depth of human thought,
 I do adjure thy power and thee
By all that man may be, by all that he is not,
 By all that he has been and yet must be! 5

1. Fragment: 'And that, etc. 2 'Tis that is or In that is cj. A. C. Bradley.