The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . 272 The Triumph of Life I \ ?^ The Triumph of Life. WIFT as a spirit hastening to histaskOf glory and of good, the Sunsprang forthRejoicing in his splendour, and the mask Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth —The smokeless altars of the mountain snowsFlamed above crimson clouds, and at the birth Of light, the Oceans orison arose. To which the birds tempered their matin lay. All flowers in field or forest which unclose Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of their censers in the orient incense lit by the new ray 275 T
The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . 272 The Triumph of Life I \ ?^ The Triumph of Life. WIFT as a spirit hastening to histaskOf glory and of good, the Sunsprang forthRejoicing in his splendour, and the mask Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth —The smokeless altars of the mountain snowsFlamed above crimson clouds, and at the birth Of light, the Oceans orison arose. To which the birds tempered their matin lay. All flowers in field or forest which unclose Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of their censers in the orient incense lit by the new ray 275 The Triumph of Life Burned slow and inconsumably, and sentTheir odorous sighs up to the smiling air;And, in succession due, did continent. Isle, ocean, and all things that in them wearThe form and character of mortal as the Sun their father rose, to bear Their portion of the toil, which he of oldTook as his own, and then imposed on them :But I, whom thoughts which must remain un-told Had kept as wakeful as the stars that gemThe cone of night, now they were laid asleepStretched my fai
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