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can dispense with a reward from "such stuff as dreams are made of." His conduct is a golden augury of the success of his future career— may the unextinguished spirit of his illustrious friend animate the creations of his pencil, and plead against Oblivion for his name!

Adonais

I.

WEEP for Adonais- he is

dead!

Oh, weep for Adonais! though

our tears

Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!

And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers,

And teach them thine own sorrow! Say:

"With me

Died Adonais; till the Future dares

Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!"

II.

Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay,

When thy Son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies

In darkness? where was lorn Urania

When Adonais died? With veilèd eyes, 'Mid listening Echoes, in her Paradise

She sate, while one, with soft enamoured breath,

Rekindled all the fading melodies,

With which, like flowers that mock the corse beneath,

He had adorned and hid the coming bulk of

death.

III.

Oh, weep for Adonais- he is dead!

Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep! Yet wherefore? Quench within their burning bed

Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart

keep,

Like his, a mute and uncomplaining sleep; For he is gone, where all things wise and fair Descend; — oh, dream not that the amorous

Deep

Will yet restore him to the vital air;

Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our despair.

IV.

Most musical of mourners, weep again!
Lament anew, Urania! He died,

Who was the Sire of an immortal strain, Blind, old, and lonely, when his country's pride,

The priest, the slave, and the liberticide, Trampled and mocked with many a loathed

rite

Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified, Into the gulf of death; but his clear Sprite Yet reigns o'er earth; the third among the sons of light.

V.

Most musical of mourners, weep anew!
Not all to that bright station dared to climb;

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