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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By John BanisterTabb

950 To Shelley

AT Shelley’s birth,

The Lark, dawn-spirit, with an anthem loud

Rose from the dusky earth

To tell it to the Cloud,

That, like a flower night-folded in the gloom,

Burst into morning bloom.

At Shelley’s death,

The Sea, that deemed him an immortal, saw

A god’s extinguished breath,

And landward, as in awe,

Upbore him to the altar whence he came,

And the rekindling flame.