. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... train. from its head as from one body grow, As grass out of a watery rock, Hairs which are vipers, and they curl andflow And their long tangles in each other with unending involutions show Their mailed radiance, as it were to mockThe torture and the death within, and sawThe solid air with many a ragged jaw. IV. And from a stone beside, a poisonous eftPeeps idly into those Gorgonian eyes ; Whilst in the air a ghastly bat, bereftOf sense, has flitted with a mad surprise132 On the Medusa Out of the cave this hideous Hght had cleft
. The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley .... train. from its head as from one body grow, As grass out of a watery rock, Hairs which are vipers, and they curl andflow And their long tangles in each other with unending involutions show Their mailed radiance, as it were to mockThe torture and the death within, and sawThe solid air with many a ragged jaw. IV. And from a stone beside, a poisonous eftPeeps idly into those Gorgonian eyes ; Whilst in the air a ghastly bat, bereftOf sense, has flitted with a mad surprise132 On the Medusa Out of the cave this hideous Hght had cleft,And he comes hastening Hke a moth thathiesAfter a taper; and the midnight skyFlares, a light more dread than obscurity. V. Tis the tempestuous loveliness of terror; For from the serpents gleams a brazen glareKindled by that inextricable error. Which makes a thrilling vapour of the airBecome a and ever-shifting mirror Of all the beauty and the terror there —A womans countenance, with serpent in death on heaven from those ^33
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