. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... I. RPHAN hours, the year is dead,Come and sigh, come and weep !Merry hours, smile the year is but , it smiles as it is sleeping,Mocking your untimely weeping. II. As an earthquake rocks a corse In its coffin in the White Winter, that rough nurse. Rocks the death-cold year to-day;Solemn hours ! wail aloudFor your mother in her Poems Written in 1821 III. As the wild air stirs and swaysThe tree-swung cradle of a child, So the breath of these rude days Rocks the year: — be calm and mild. Trembling hours, she

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. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... I. RPHAN hours, the year is dead,Come and sigh, come and weep !Merry hours, smile the year is but , it smiles as it is sleeping,Mocking your untimely weeping. II. As an earthquake rocks a corse In its coffin in the White Winter, that rough nurse. Rocks the death-cold year to-day;Solemn hours ! wail aloudFor your mother in her Poems Written in 1821 III. As the wild air stirs and swaysThe tree-swung cradle of a child, So the breath of these rude days Rocks the year: — be calm and mild. Trembling hours, she will arise With new love within her eyes. IV. January gray is here, Like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, March with grief doth howl and rave. And April weeps — but, O, ye hours. Follow with Mays fairest 294

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