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Alas! I have nor hope nor health,

Nor peace within nor calm around, 20
Nor that content surpassing wealth
The sage in meditation found,

And walked with inward glory
crowned-

Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor
leisure.

Others I see whom these surround-25

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Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep

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Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow

Smiling they live, and call life pleas- Claspest the limits of mortality,

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THE WORLD'S WANDERERS

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And sick of prey, yet howling on for

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When I arose and saw the dawn,
I sighed for thee;
When light rode high, and the dew was
gone,

Tell me, thou Star, whose wings of light And noon lay heavy on flower and tree,

Speed thee in thy fiery flight,

In what cavern of the night

Will thy pinions close now?

And the weary Day turned to his rest,
Lingering like an unloved guest,

I sighed for thee.

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Haste, oh, haste!

As shades are chased

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This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful, and free;

Trembling, by day, from heaven's blue This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Vic

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tory.

ADONAIS

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for Adonais-he is dead! weep Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!

And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years

To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers,

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Died Adonais; till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be

An echo and a light unto eternity!"

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Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay, When thy Son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies

In darkness? where was lorn Urania When Adonais died? With veilèd eyes, 'Mid listening Echoes, in her Paradise She sate, while one, with soft enamored breath,

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Rekindled all the fading melodies, With which, like flowers that mock the corse beneath,

He had adorned and hid the coming bulk of death.

Oh, weep for Adonais-he is dead! Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep!

Yet wherefore? burning bed

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Quench within their

Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart

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