To a Skylark | ||
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by: Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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1820 |
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Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! |
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Bird thou never wert, |
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That from Heaven, or near it, |
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Pourest thy full heart |
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In profuse strains of unpremeditated art |
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Higher still and higher |
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From the earth thou springest |
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Like a cloud of fire; |
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The blue deep thou wingest, |
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And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. |
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In the golden lightning |
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Of the sunken sun, |
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O'er which clouds are bright'ning, |
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Thou dost float and run; |
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Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. |
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The pale purple even Keen as are the arrows All the earth and air Like a high-born maiden Like a glow-worm golden Like a rose embower'd Sound of vernal showers Teach us, Sprite or Bird, Chorus Hymeneal, What objects are the fountains With thy clear keen joyance Waking or asleep, We look before and after, Yet if we could scorn Better than all measures Teach me half the gladness |
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