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By the struggling moonbeam's misty light,
And the lantern dimly burning.

No useless coffin enclosed his breast,

Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.

Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not a word of sorrow;

But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead,
And we bitterly thought of the morrow.

We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed,
And smoothed down his lonely pillow,

That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head,
And we far away on the billow

Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone,
And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,—
But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on
In the grave where a Briton has laid him.

But half of our heavy task was done,

When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.

Slowly and sadly we laid him down,

From the field of his fame fresh and gory;

We carved not a line, and we raised not a stoneBut we left him alone with his glory!

CLXX.

PERCY BYSSHe Shelley,

1792-1822.

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STANZAS.

APRIL, 1814.

WAY! the moor is dark beneath the moon,

Rapid clouds have drunk the last pale beam of

even:

Away! the gathering winds will call the darkness soon, And profoundest midnight shroud the serene lights of

heaven.

Pause not! The time is past! Every voice cries, Away! Tempt not with one last glance thy friend's ungentle

mood:

Thy lover's eye, so glazed and cold, dares not entreat thy

stay:

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

Away, away! to thy sad and silent home;

Pour bitter tears on its desolated hearth;

Watch the dim shades as like ghosts they go and come,
And complicate strange webs of melancholy mirth.
The leaves of wasted autumn woods shall float around
thine head;

The blooms of dewy spring shall gleam beneath thy feet:

But thy soul or this world must fade in the frost that binds

the dead,

Ere midnight's frown and morning's smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose, For the weary winds are silent, or the moon is in the

deep;

Some respite to its turbulence unresting ocean knows ; Whatever moves, or toils, or grieves, hath its appointed

sleep.

Thou in the grave shalt rest—yet till the phantoms flee Which that house and heath and garden made dear to

thee erewhile,

Thy remembrance, and repentance, and deep musings are not free

From the music of two voices and the light of one sweet smile.

CLXXI.

STANZAS.

WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES.

'HE sun is warm, the sky is clear,

THE

The waves are dancing fast and bright,

Blue isles and snowy mountains wear
The purple noon's transparent might :

The breath of the moist earth is light,
Around its unexpanded buds;

Like many a voice of one delight,

The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The city's voice itself is soft like solitude's.

I see the deep's untrampled floor

With green and purple sea-weeds strown;
I see the waves upon the shore,

Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown:
I sit upon the sands alone,

The lightning of the noon-tide ocean

Is flashing round me, and a tone

Arises from its measured motion,

How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion.

Alas! I have nor hope nor health,
Nor peace within nor calm around,
Nor that content surpassing wealth
The sage in meditation found,

And walked with inward glory crowned

Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure.
Others I see whom these surround-

Smiling they live and call life pleasure ;To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.

Yet now despair itself is mild,

Even as the winds and waters are ;