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was grass-grown and the unremembered tears were dry in laian for their honoured chief who fell in byzant pierced by moslem spears
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and blighting hope who with the news of death struck body and soul as with a mortal blight she saw between the chestnuts far beneath
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and athanase her child who must have been then three years old sate opposite and gazed in patient silence
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thus through his age dark cold and tempest-tossed shone truth upon zonoras and he filled from fountains pure nigh overgrown and lost
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the youth as shadows on a grassy hill outrun the winds that chase them soon outran his teacher and did teach with native skill
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so in the caverns of the forest green or on the rocks of echoing ocean hoar zonoras and prince athanase were seen
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which pours beyond the sea one steadfast beam whilst all the constellations of the sky seemed reeling through the storm
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'and the far sighings of yon piny dale made vocal by some wind we feel not here i bear alone what nothing may avail
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'is faithful now the story of the feast and agathon and diotima seemed from death and dark forgetfulness released
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loves then the shade of his own soul half seen in any mirror or the spring's young minions the winged leaves amid the copses green
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'twas at this season that prince athanase passed the white alps those eagle-baffling mountains slept in their shrouds of snow beside the ways
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which clanged along the mountain's marble brow warped into adamantine fretwork hung and filled with frozen light the chasms below
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catch thee and feed from their o'erflowing bowls thousands who thirst for thine ambrosial dew thou art the radiance which where ocean rolls
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in spring which moves the unawakened forest clothing with leaves its branches bare and bleak thou floatest among men and aye implorest
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trembling in drops on the discoloured skin of those who love their kind and therefore perish in ghastly torture a sweet medicine
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her hair was brown her sphered eyes were brown and in their dark and liquid moisture swam like the dim orb of the eclipsed moon
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notes _ strange edition deep edition _ feed an bodleian manuscript feed on editions
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rosalind thou lead my sweet and i will follow
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first voice but never bowed our snowy crest as at the voice of thine unrest
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the earth how canst thou hear who knowest not the language of the dead
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prometheus and what art thou o melancholy voice
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panthea see how he lifts his mighty looks the heaven darkens above
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ione he speaks o shelter me
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first fury ha i scent life
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prometheus i would not quit this bleak ravine these unrepentant pains
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mercury alas i wonder at yet pity thee
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panthea see where the child of heaven with winged feet runs down the slanted sunlight of the dawn
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prometheus pain is my element as hate is thine ye rend me now i care not
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second fury dost imagine we will but laugh into thy lidless eyes
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fifth fury from the furnace white and hot in which
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panthea alas i looked forth twice but will no more
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fury blood thou canst see and fire and canst hear groans worse things unheard unseen remain behind
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prometheus thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes and yet i pity those they torture not
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fury thou pitiest them i speak no more
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panthea alas what sawest thou more
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ione more yet come one by one: the air around them looks radiant as the air around a star
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panthea canst thou speak sister all my words are drowned
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prometheus spirits how know ye this shall be
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note _ moon b morn _ o'er b on
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dream follow follow
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panthea the crags this clear spring morning mock our voices as they were spirit-tongued
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panthea list the strain floats nearer now
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asia come sweet panthea link thy hand in mine and follow ere the voices fade away
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panthea a countenance with beckoning smiles: there burns an azure fire within its golden locks
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demogorgon i spoke but as ye speak for jove is the supreme of living things
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asia thou breathest on their nostrils but my breath would give them swifter speed
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spirit alas it could not
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panthea list spirits speak
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notes _ many-peopled b many peopled _ light-laden b light laden
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notes _ their b thy _ unwithering b edition unwitting
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asia oh mother wherefore speak the name of death
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think ye by gazing on each other's eyes to multiply your lovely selves and fill with sphered fires the interlunar air
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panthea see where the spirits of the human mind wrapped in sweet sounds as in bright veils approach
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panthea ha they are gone
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notes _-_ the abysses and the abysses of b _ the omitted
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a voice: from beneath or as they whom we have left we change and pass away
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notes _ dread b edition dead _ falter b edition flatter
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when thou descendst each night with open eyes in torture for a tyrant seldom sleeps thou never
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asia thine eyes burn burn hide them within thine hair
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panthea o quench thy lips i sink i perish
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asia shelter me now they burn it is his spirit in their orbs
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or looks which tell that while the lips are calm and the eyes cold the spirit weeps within tears like the sanguine sweat of agony
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[the sound beneath as of earthquake and the driving of whirlwinds the ravine is split and the phantasm of jupiter rises surrounded by heavy clouds which dart forth lightning
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'cars drawn by rainbow-winged steeds which trample the dim winds: in each there stands a wild-eyed charioteer urging their flight
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i may mention for the information of the more critical reader that the verbal alterations in this edition of prometheus are made from a list of errata written by shelley himself
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i inscribe with your name from a distant country and after an absence whose months have seemed years this the latest of my literary efforts
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camillo art thou not most miserable
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andrea my lord a gentleman from salamanca would speak with you
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cenci bid him attend me in the grand saloon
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notes _ whom i had edition whom i have editions _ that shalt edition that shall editions
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beatrice ah my blood runs cold
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beatrice it is not true dear lady pray look up
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first guest oh horrible i will depart
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lucretia alas poor boy what else couldst thou have done
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beatrice oh that the earth would gape hide me o god
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lucretia o husband pray forgive poor beatrice
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lucretia so help me god i never thought the things you charge me with
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giacomo but you orsino have the petition: wherefore not present it
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lucretia alas what has befallen thee child
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orsino accuse him of the deed and let the law avenge thee
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lucretia you think we should devise his death
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beatrice that step we hear approach must never pass the bridge of which we spoke
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giacomo i sought him here and now must wait till he returns
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beatrice 'tis my brother's voice you know me not
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orsino i am come to say he has escaped
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giacomo listen what sound is that
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giacomo if e'er he wakes again i will not trust to hireling hands
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giacomo and all forgotten: oh that i had never been
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lucretia oh to what will
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lucretia peace peace
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believe that heaven is merciful and just and will not add our dread necessity to the amount of his offences
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olimpio it is the white reflection of your own which you call pale
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olimpio or 'tis my hate and the deferred desire to wreak it which extinguishes their blood
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marzio is all quiet
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marzio as to the how this act be warranted it rests with you
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marzio ha some one comes
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savella go search the castle round sound the alarm look to the gates that none escape
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beatrice how dead he only sleeps you mistake brother
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savella ha is it so
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savella can you name any who had an interest in his death
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