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Document Title: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Inscription for the couch, still preserved, on which he
passed the last night of his life) (Delaware fair copy manuscript)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1881
Type of Manuscript: draft manuscript
Scribe: DGR
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Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(Inscription for the couch, still preserved, on which he passed the last night
of his life.)
(Inscription for the couch, still preserved, on which he passed the last night
of his life.)
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- 'Twixt those twin worlds,—the world of Sleep, which gave
- No dream to warn,—the Tidal world of Death,
- Which the earth's sea, as the earth, replenisheth,—
- Shelley, Song's orient sun, to breast the wave,
- Rose from this couch that morn. Ah! did he brave
- Only the sea?—or did man's deed of hell
- Engulph his bark 'mid mists impenetrable? . . . . .
- No eye discerned, nor any power could might save.
- When that mist cleared, O Shelley! What dread veil
- 10Was rent for thee, who held'st to whom far-darkling Truth
- The Was Reigned sovereign guide through thy brief ageless youth?
- Was the Truth thy Truth, Shelley?—Hush! All-Hail,
- Past doubt, thou gav'st it; and in that thy sphere
- Art first of praisers, being most praisèd here.
- to whom far-darkling Truth
- Was sovereign guide through thy brief ageless youth?
- o'er steeps of
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