Proserpine and Midas by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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page 59 of 84 (70%)
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Fly me, and from the glory of my ray
Good minds and open actions take new might Until diminished by the reign of night. I feed the clouds, the rainbows & the flowers [38] With their etherial colours; the moon's globe And the pure stars in their eternal bowers Are cinctured with my power as with a robe; Whatever lamps on Earth or Heaven may shine Are portions of one power, which is mine. I stand at noon upon the peak of heaven, Then with unwilling steps I wander down Into the clouds of the Atlantic even-- For grief that I depart they weep & frown [;] What look is more delightful than the smile With which I soothe them from the western isle [?] I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself & knows it is divine. All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medecine is mine; All light of art or nature;--to my song Victory and praise, in its own right, belong. [Sidenote: (Shelley.)] _Pan (sings)._ From the forests and highlands We come, we come; From the river-girt islands |
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