. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... nce could have been ever as she goes the palsied woman How slow and painfully you seem to walk,Poor Media ! you tire yourself with talk. And well it may,Fiordispina, dearest — well-a-day !You are hastening to a marriage-bed;I to the grave! — And if my love were my heart deceives me, I would lieBeside him in my shroud as willingly176 Fiordispina As now in the gay night-dress Lilla wrought. Fie, child ! Let that unseasonable thoughtNot be remembered till it snows in June;Such fancies are a music out of tuneWith the sweet dan

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. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... nce could have been ever as she goes the palsied woman How slow and painfully you seem to walk,Poor Media ! you tire yourself with talk. And well it may,Fiordispina, dearest — well-a-day !You are hastening to a marriage-bed;I to the grave! — And if my love were my heart deceives me, I would lieBeside him in my shroud as willingly176 Fiordispina As now in the gay night-dress Lilla wrought. Fie, child ! Let that unseasonable thoughtNot be remembered till it snows in June;Such fancies are a music out of tuneWith the sweet dance your heart must keep ! would you take all beauty and delightBack to the Paradise from which you sprung,And leave to grosser mortals ? —And say, sweet lamb, would you not learn the sweetAnd subtle mystery by which spirits meet?Who knows whether the loving game is , once of mortal [vesture] naked soul goes wandering here and thereThrough the wide deserts of Elysian air?The violet dies not till it —. 177

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