Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may Burst to illumine our tempestuous day. NATIONAL ANTHEM I GOD prosper, speed, and save, Pave with swift victory The steps of Liberty, Whom Britons own to be Immortal Queen. II See, she comes throned on high, God save the Queen! Millions on millions wait Firm, rapid, and elate, On her majestic state! God save the Queen! Moulding the mighty whole, God save the Queen! She is thine own deep love Rained down from heaven above, Wherever she rest or move, God save our Queen! National Anthem, Mrs. Shelley, 18392 || God save the Queen, Rossetti. Published by Mrs. Shelley, 18392. IV Wilder her enemies In their own dark disguise, Lips touched by seraphim God save the Queen! Sweet as if angels sang, Loud as that trumpet's clang, Wakening the world's dead gang, God save the Queen! ODE TO HEAVEN CHORUS OF SPIRITS FIRST SPIRIT PALACE-ROOF of cloudless nights! Deep, immeasurable, vast, Of acts and ages yet to come! Glorious shapes have life in thee, Living globes which ever throng Even thy name is as a god, Worship thee with bended knees. Ode to Heaven. Published with Prometheus Unbound, 1820. Dated in the Harvard MS., Florence, December, 1819. Their unremaining gods and they Like a river roll away; Thou remainest such alway. SECOND SPIRIT Thou art but the mind's first chamber, But the portal of the grave, THIRD SPIRIT Peace! the abyss is wreathed with scorn What is heaven? and what are ye Who its brief expanse inherit? What are suns and spheres which flee With the instinct of that Spirit Of which ye are but a part? Drops which Nature's mighty heart Drives through thinnest veins. Depart! What is heaven? a globe of dew, Filling in the morning new Some eyed flower whose young leaves waken On an unimagined world; Constellated suns unshaken, Orbits measureless, are furled In that frail and fading sphere, With ten millions gathered there, AN EXHORTATION CHAMELEONS feed on light and air; Poets could but find the same Would they ever change their hue Twenty times a day ? Poets are on this cold earth, Yet dare not stain with wealth or power An Exhortation. Published with Prometheus Unbound, 1820. Dated in the Harvard MS., Pisa, April, 1820. ii. 1 on, Shelley, 1820 || in, Harvard MS. |