. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... e cicale above in the lime,And the lizards below in the as silent as ever old Tmolus wasListening to my sweet pipings. II. Liquid Peneus was flowing, And all dark Tempe layIn Pelions shadow, outgrowing254 Hymn of Pan The light of the dying day,Speeded by my sweet Sileni, and Sylvans, and Fauns, And the nymphs of the woods and waves,To the edge of the moist river-lawns. And the brink of the dewy all that did then attend and followWere silent with love, as you now, Apollo,With envy of my sweet pipings. sang
. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... e cicale above in the lime,And the lizards below in the as silent as ever old Tmolus wasListening to my sweet pipings. II. Liquid Peneus was flowing, And all dark Tempe layIn Pelions shadow, outgrowing254 Hymn of Pan The light of the dying day,Speeded by my sweet Sileni, and Sylvans, and Fauns, And the nymphs of the woods and waves,To the edge of the moist river-lawns. And the brink of the dewy all that did then attend and followWere silent with love, as you now, Apollo,With envy of my sweet pipings. sang of the dancing stars, I sang of the daedal Earth,And of Heaven — and the giant wars, And Love, and Death, and Birth,—And then I changed my pipings,—Singing how down the vale of Menalus I pursued a maiden and claspd a reed:Gods and men, we are all deluded thus ! It breaks in our bosom and then we bleedAll wept, as I think both ye now envy or age had not frozen your blood,At the sorrow of my sweet The Worlds Wanderers ELL me, thou star, whose wingsof lightSpeed thee in thy fiery flight,In what cavern of the nightWill thy pinions close now ? II. Tell me, moon, thou pale and grayPilgrim of heavens homeless what depth of night or day Seekest thou repose now? wind, who wanderestLike the worlds rejected guest,Hast thou still some secret nestOn the tree or billow ?256
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