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Hail to the whether poirit!
Bnd then never went,
That from tearing or merit
Donnect the full heart

In pis pose Tham's of un premeditated art

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Fac-simile of part of "The Skylark." By permission of the Library of Harvard University, from their reproduction of the Shelley manuscript in their possession.

SELECTIONS FROM SHELLEY

HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY.

I.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats tho' unseen among us,-visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower,—
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance

Each human heart and countenance;

Like hues and harmonies of evening,

Like clouds in starlight widely spread,

Like memory of music fled,

Like aught that for its grace may be

Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.

II.

Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate

With thine own hues all thou dosť shine upon Of human thought or form,-where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away, and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever

Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain river,

Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown,

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