...mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses drees The bones of Desolation's nakedness, O ? preen access, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the grass...

...mountains rise. And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses, drese The bones of Desolation's nakedness. am omnipotent. All else had been subdued to me ; alone The soul of man, like an unextinguish'd gram is spread. 411 SHELLEY'S POETICAL WORKS. And gray walla moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds,...

...mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps...of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds like slow flre upon a hoary brand ; And one keen...

...mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps...of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds like slow fire upon a hoary hrand ; And one keen...

...an infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. " And gray walls moulder round, on which dull time Feeds like...with wedge sublime, Pavilioning the dust of him who plann'd This refuge for his memory, doth stand Like flame transform'd to marble ; and bcitmtft A Jiclil...

...feelingly. In the last verses of the elegy, he speaks of it again with the same feeling of its beauty. " The spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to...laughing flowers along the grass is spread. •And gray walls moulder round, on which dull time Feeds like slow fire upon a hoary brand; And one keen...

...rise And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses, dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness. Pass, rill the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access. Where, like an infnnt's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flower* along the grass i» spread And gray walls...

...fanciful comparison of beauty personified to a jewel, and night to an Ethiop : thus Shelley, " And gray walls moulder round, on which dull time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand." Time here is first personified, and afterwards compared to slow fire. Again, says the same great poet...

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...shattered mountains rise, And Howering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps...the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass isspread. And grevwallsmoulderround, on which dull Time Feeils, like slow fire upon a hoary brand ;...