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silenus be silent sons command the slaves to drive the gathered flocks into the rock-roofed cave
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silenus there are not these lone rocks are bare of men
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ulysses obeying whom or is the state popular
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ulysses how live they do they sow the corn of ceres
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silenus ah no they live in an ungracious land
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ulysses and are they just to strangers hospitable
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silenus they think the sweetest thing a stranger brings is his own flesh
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ulysses the cyclops now where is he not at home
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silenus have you it now or is it in the ship
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silenus papaiapax what a sweet smell it has
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silenus by jove no but i smell it
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silenus babai great bacchus calls me forth to dance
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silenus let gold alone only unlock the cask
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silenus what ho assistance comrades haste assistance
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cyclops by whom who laid his fist upon your head
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silenus those men because i would not suffer them to steal your goods
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silenus i may you perish wretch
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ulysses selecting two the plumpest of the crowd he grasped them in his hands
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ulysses oh no nothing of that kind my device is subtle
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chorus how then i heard of old that thou wert wise
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ulysses listen o cyclops for i am well skilled in bacchus whom i gave thee of to drink
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cyclops what shall i do silenus shall i stay
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cyclops indeed this place is closely carpeted with flowers and grass
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silenus it was this stranger kissing me because i looked so beautiful
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cyclops you shall repent for kissing the coy wine that loves you not
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silenus by jupiter you said that i am fair
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silenus how is it mixed let me observe
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silenus not till i see you wear that coronal and taste the cup to you
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cyclops papai the vine must be a sapient plant
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silenus polypheme i am the ganymede of jupiter
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chorus the same thing has occurred to us our ankles are sprained with standing here i know not how
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ulysses cowardly dogs ye will not aid me then
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cyclops ah me my eyesight is parched up to cinders
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cyclops ah me indeed what woe has fallen upon me
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but wretched nothings think ye not to flee out of this rock i standing at the outlet will bar the way and catch you as you pass
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chorus why then no one can be to blame
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cyclops i say 'twas nobody who blinded me
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chorus nay it cannot be that no one made you blind
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chorus they stand under the darkness of the rock and cling to it
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chorus not there he is a little there beyond you
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cyclops detested wretch where are you
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ulysses far from you i keep with care this body of ulysses
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chorus and we the shipmates of ulysses now will serve our bacchus all our happy lives
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[these four epigrams were published numbers and without title by mrs shelley poetical works st edition
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[published by mrs shelley posthumous poems there is a draft amongst the hunt manuscripts
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the laurels and the myrtle-copses dim the pine-encircled mountain maenalus the cold crags of lycaeus weep for him
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and the cloven waters like a chasm of mountains stood and received him in its mighty portal and led him through the deep's untrampled fountains
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which sounded as he passed and lakes which rain replenished not girt round by marble caves 'wildered by the watery motion of the main
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and rock-resounding hypanis and thou eridanus who bearest like empire's sign two golden horns upon thy taurine brow
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[published in part by medwin the angler in wales life of shelley reprinted in full by garnett relics of shelley
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and earnest to explore within around the divine wood whose thick green living woof tempered the young day to the sight i wound
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against the air that in that stillness deep and solemn struck upon my forehead bare the slow soft stroke of a continuous
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with perfect joy received the early day singing within the glancing leaves whose sound kept a low burden to their roundelay
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my slow steps had already borne me o'er such space within the antique wood that i perceived not where i entered any more
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dark dark yet clear moved under the obscure eternal shades whose interwoven looms the rays of moon or sunlight ne'er endure
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which starred that night when even as a thing that suddenly for blank astonishment charms every sense and makes all thought take wing
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what mary is when she a little smiles i cannot even tell or call to mind it is a miracle so new so rare
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now had the loophole of that dungeon still which bears the name of famine's tower from me and where 'tis fit that many another will
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trained to the sport and eager for the game wide ranging in his front ' but soon were seen though by so short a course with 'spirits tame
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for they were with me moaning in their sleep and begging bread ah for those darling ones
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in all that day and all the following night i wept not nor replied but when to shine upon the world not us came forth the light
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between the fifth and sixth day ere twas dawn i found 'myself blind-groping o'er the three three days i called them after they were gone
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daemon search even as thou wilt but thou shalt never find what i can hide
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cyprian what noise is that among the boughs who moves
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cyprian have you studied much
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daemon no and yet i know enough not to be wholly ignorant
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cyprian pray sir what science may you know
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cyprian do you regret my victory
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floro from what rocks and desert cells
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cyprian permit one question further: is the lady impossible to hope or not
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cyprian would you for your part marry her
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daemon now from this plank will i pass to the land and thus fulfil my scheme
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daemon and who art thou before whose feet my fate has prostrated me
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cyprian one who moved with pity would soothe its stings
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yet i lament what has long ceased to be the object of desire or memory and my life is not life
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a voice what is the glory far above all else in human life
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all love oh love
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justina and who art thou who hast found entrance hither into my chamber through the doors and locks
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justina it is invincible it were not free if thou hadst power upon it
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justina it were bought too dear
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justina my defence consists in god
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lisander oh my daughter what
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livia i daresay it was moscon whom she saw for he was locked up in my room
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livia when i once see them safe out of the house i shall breathe freely
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justina so do i confide in thy just favour heaven
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notes _ certainly would editions would certainly _ beastlily beastily editions
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mephistopheles no lord i find all there as ever bad at best
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even i am sorry for man's days of sorrow i could myself almost give up the pleasure of plaguing the poor things
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notes _ frowning]fawning _ brake lake
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faust how the children of the wind rage in the air
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voices and you may now as well take your course on to hell since you ride by so fast on the headlong blast
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semichorus a thousand steps must a woman take where a man but a single spring will make
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note _ felsensee felumee felunsee editions
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faust there sit a girl and an old woman they seem to be tired with pleasure and with play
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notes _-_ so boscombe manuscript wanting
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faust a red mouse in the middle of her singing sprung from her mouth
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how strangely does a single blood-red line not broader than the sharp edge of a knife adorn her lovely neck
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queen mab was probably written during the year it is first heard of at lynmouth august but the text may be assumed to include earlier material
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avia pieridum peragro loca nullius ante trita solo juvat integros accedere fonteis atque haurire: juvatque novos decerpere flores
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notes _ exhaustless store edition _ draws edition see editor's note
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