...and climactic victories might create the new fund of memories, out of which comes the new awakening: Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendor of its prime; But Shelley knew that this dream too would be fated to impermanence by the very...

...cycle begun with the founding of Athens. The entropic work of the clinamen will ensure that it shall The splendour of its prime, And leave, if nought so...bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give. (1084-89) The eddying torrent of history will continue, incorporating "all earth can take" from the...

...be a wreck, but that it will eventually be built again "above the idle foam of Time" (l. 1007), that "another Athens shall arise, / And to remoter time...sunset to the skies, / The splendour of its prime" (ll. 1084-87). However, by this time the question as to the source of this paradoxical faith has become...

...commence in which 'A brighter Hellas rears its mountains / From waves serener far' (1060, 1066-7): Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath,...like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime. (1084-7) 76 While Shelley is making a practical plea - that England and the rest of Christian Europe...

...might have arrived at a stagnant and miserable state of social institutions as China and Japan possess. Another Athens shall arise And to remoter time Bequeath,...the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if naught so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven give. Some months later, from exile in Paris,...