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FROM THE GREEK.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb?

To what sublime and star-ypaven home

Floatest thou?—

I am the image of swift Plato’s spirit,

Ascending heaven; Athens doth inherit _5

His corpse below.

 

NOTE:

_5 doth Boscombe manuscript; does edition 1839.