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( '». ; n ml M<>,1- 1,1 III ■ I hiii-\iiii. ) Tiir (■\N\|.i\N-> -.1 <>i I': A Ituniiiiu'.'. t i.uislatr.l fimii tlir l--,. „, l,,,I,|..».a>|ic. {X"'- )'">■/:: />. .1 /./>/• ' ,< ,i- ('': : ■l'nr> : Ihiri .(■ I!>'hl'll.) TlIK Can \i'l\N (.11111. i;""i«-- r.V"'- y<"l-: />•- 1 /'/''' ''""'' ( 'mil /"iiii/. ) pnKM>^ n( Wll.n I.IM. : A Conipil 1 1 i. .11. ( l.nmln,, ■ Wn/t. r Srul/.) / AVE: AN ODE POR THE CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. AUGUST 4. 1792. BY CHARLES 0. p - p V p T- :r TORONTO: WILLIAMSON i;ooK (()M!'.\NV 1892. f' S"- 45687 I L (F„.n,l n.-rn,:rn,.,lnth A't „/ I'n r/h, ni' n' n/Crnw./,,, n, (h .far IKlNltD BV .1. .'. AN-:'iW, WINh-nl!, NOVA ^ torth to y..u uith loii-ini;. though t'lu- wars "'•'t """ ""t l"', x.ry.urd. c|< -iMss, OVr uhitl), ;,.-> oVt uKuher - iuUtct sky n.nri phaiuoms drit and pass,— ^■<»u knr.w niv .•..nluloii K vc. since first, a rhiid, Amid \our wastes cjlLircrn 1 wandciv.l wild. III. Inconstant, ca-c. curious, I roamed : And ever your Ion- reaches iun e and loiter till the ehan-e should eonu- And the -real Hood-, turn seaward, roann- home. f\. And now. () tran(|uil marshes, in \our vast Serenity of Ni.sion and of dream, Wherethrough by every mtrieaie vein have pa>sed With joy impetuous and pam supreme Tile sharp (k-ree tides that ehafe the shores of ,.arth ra In endless and (-ontrolless chb and How, Strangely akin nou sctni U) him whose hnth One hundred \ear> ago ^\'uh llery succour to tiie ranks of song Defied the ancient gates of wrath and wroiv. Like yours, () marches, his compassionate breast, ^\'herein abode all dream> (jf love and peace, Was tortured with perpetual unrest. Now loud with flood, now languid with release. Now i)oignant with the lonely ebb, the strife Of tides from tin- salt sea of human pain That hiss along the perilous coasts of life lieat in his eager brain ; Hut all about the tumult of his heart Stretched tlie great calm of his celestial art. XI. 'I'hcivlorr with 11,, hr (ji-lu, Iron, Tniuraiuar And III)- still world of ecstasy, to tlicu, SiiL-llcy, to t'lL'L' I turn, the awitar OrSoiU', Low, Drrani. Dcsinand 'a'herty; To thcc I turn with rcviivnt iiands or|)ra>cr And li|)s that lain would case my heart of praise, Whom chief of all wtio.c I, rows [jrophetic wear 'riie pure and sacred bays I worship, and havi' worshippenred in the face ol man\ a iVen/ied erinit iminrLJitiiil Time. Xlll. Ihc star tliat lunais dp revolution smot< W iKl lieais and elian- W t Oil thine asceniLint >\)\ H)>e intluenee therealt.r ^L•elne(! lo Hoai pne.e, irouL^ii many a Miant^e t'eli|)>e ot wrath and lear Dimmin- awhile the ruhaiK'.' ot"th\' love. lUit still supreme in tliv nativit). All d;irk, invidious aspeets far a hove, 111 Mined oiu- clear orli lor thee, — I he star whose ministrations just and stron;. <"ontrolled the tireless lli-ht of Dante's soni: ''-h v^.: \IV. W'ah how uugust coiiltitiDii, and what tear.-, or p^'iiilcntial unavailing; slianiu, riiy vcncral)lc fosicr nioilicr hears riic sons of son:;- ini|)L\u-h Ikt aiiciLiit nanii', liccausc in one rash lioiir of anucr blind Shu thriisi tluT forth m >-\ilc. and thy feet loo soon 1(1 eanns wild oater wax's fonsi-netl, - l'"ar from lu'r \\elMoved seat, I'ar troni her sludious halls and storied towers And weed) Isis windiiii; lhrou,i;li his llowers. XV. And thou, thenceforth t!ie breathless ehild of elian-e, Thine own Ala^tor, on an endless (juest Of uniinaiiined loveliness, ditlst ran"e Ur;4ed ever i)\- the soul'.s divine imrest. Of that high quest and that unrest divine 16 ■%». 1S>. Thy firsl immortal music thou didst iiuikc, Inwn.ui^^ht with fairy Alp, and Rcuss, and Rhine, And phantom seas that break In soiuidless foam alonii; the shores of 'I'imo, Prisoned m thine im|)erishal)le rhyme. XVI. Thyself the lark melodious in mid-heaven ; Thyself the Trotean shape of rhainless chjud. l'reij;nant with elemental fire, and driven Through deei>s of (ji'ivering li-ht. and darkness loud With tem|)est. yd henerieent as praver ; 'I'hyseU the wild west wind, relentless strewniL; The withered leaves of custom on the air, And through tiie wreck pursuing O'er lovelier Aniws. more imi)erial Replies, '1 .1. radiant visions to their viewless homes. '7 XVII. And when thy mightiest creation thou Wert lain to body forth, -the dauntless form. The all-enduring^ all-forgiving i)ro\v ()( the great Titan, flinchless in the storm Of pa-igs unspeakable and nameless hates, \'et rent f)y all the wrongs and woes of men, And triumphing in his pain, that so their fates' -Might be assuaged,— oh then Out of that vast compassionate heart of thine Thou wert constrained to shape the dream benign. -Will. - O Haths .f Caracalla, arches clad In sue' iran^cendant rhapsodies of -reen That one might guess the sprites of spHng were glad I-')!- vour majestic ruin, y.xirs the scene, TiK- illuminating air of sense and thought'; 1 8 And \(nirs the enchanted h'ght, O skies of Rome, Where the giant vision into form was wrought ; iJeneath )-oiir hla/ing dome Tile intensest song our language ever knew ])eat u[) exhaustless to the hhnding l)lue ! — XIX. The domes of Pisa and her towers superb, The nnrtles and tlie ilexes that sigh O'er San ("duliano. where no jars disturb 'I'lie lonelv a/.it)la"s evening cr\', Tile Serch'o's sun-kissed waters, —these cons])ired With Plato's theme ocx-ult, with Dante's calm Rapture of mystic love, and so inspired Th\- soul's espousal i)salm, A strain of such elect and pure intent it i)reaihes of a diviner element. 19 ■A' %Mi XX. A r;,|„ „;,„.d ,„ ,,„„^^. ,,11 ^^ No.l-vcal,„H.,l„„,h,,.„,su.rcr„ame ' '-""■"SaK,,|,lH..,,l™i,H„-.sof,hv,.on,, ''''"'- .^ncf,,!u. spacious ,.„,.,,|a,o,, - ""I'y >"Pivm,. la„K.,„. thai nKn,m.,l forhim '""«'-lyhal.,l,oilu, still hal,i,a lation 'i^'iu'ath ihc-ras.s-ro(.tsdim^ '^^^'•^f^^l"v.lnK.sl,cramc apart ( )!' a art XXI. ■•'ust. hMn>cI( would not abide — f |ov ■\""""»ri„j; A.l.ma.s has „„, .li^r ■\»«>i".'l.va,h ,,,,,., hut ,,.,,,,,,,,„, •^"•l'-"-as,|,,s„a„.so„,,„vstK-al 20 I'^vlii while ihc note SLrciic was on thy tonuuc 'I'liin -lew ihf \r\\ ( if the Invi^ihlc, The while' sword nearer swunu. — And ir: the sudden wixloni of tliy rest 'I'hoii knewe>l all tht)ii had>t hut chnil) Liiiessed. XXII. — Lament. I.eriei, iiioiirn for the world's lo^s 1 Mom-n that pure liL;ht of ^on-• extinct at noon : \ e wa\es of S|ie/,/ia that shine and toss Repent that sacred Oanie you (|uenched too soon : Mourn. .Metliterranean waters, mourn In allluent piu-|>le tlown \()ur jiolden shore I Such strains as his. whose voice yon stilled in scorn, ( )ur ears ma\ ureet no more, L'nless at last to that far splu-re we climl) \\ here he comi)letes th.e wonder of his rh\nie ! 21 will. }lo\v liki.' a cloud she fled, thy fateful hark, Ircmi c^c'.^ that watched to hearts that waited, till l'|) fnmi till- ocean roared the ten^pest dark -- And the wild heart love waited for was still I Hither and tliither in the ^low, soft tide. Rolled sea\vard, shoreward, sands and WvUiderinu shells And shifting weeds thy fellows, thou ditlst hitle Keniote from all fjirewells, Xnr felt the sun. nor heard the fleetinu rain, Nor hec-detl ('asa Magni's (|uenchle>s j)ain. x\i\. Thoit heededst not? Nay, for it was not thou. That lilind, nuiti' clay reluKjuished hy the waves Keluctantlv at lasi, and skunherinu now In one of kind earth's most compas>ionate graves ! Xoi thou, not thou, — for thou wert in the light 22 Of tlu" Unspcakai)!". where tiDic is not. Thou sawest those tears : hut in ihv perfect si'^hr And thy eternal thouglit Wore ihe\' not even now all wiped away In the reunion of the infinite dav .' x\v. ■|"hore face to face thou sawest the liviiii;- Ciod And wor.shipedst. l)eholdin,u Him the same Adored on earth as I.ove. the same whose rod 'I'hou iiatlsi enduretl as Life, whose secret name 'I'liou now diilst learn, the healin,^ name of Death, In tliat unroutahle ])rofound of peace, iieyond experience of pulse and breath, Ilovond the last release Of !'>n-in-. rose to -reet thee all the lords Ot Ihou-hi. with consummation in thi-ir words. 23 X.W I. Hi- of iliL' scwii cities cUiiiiied, whose e\-es, 'I'h-ui-h blind, saw i^^o.ls and heroes, and the fall C)f Ilium, and many alien skies, And ( lir( e"s Isle : and he whom mortals call The I nimderoiis. who san:; the Titan hound As tiidu the Titan \i(:tor : the henign Spirit ol ITilo ; Jo!) : and Judah's crowned Sinyei- iind seer di\'ine ; ()mar : the Tuscan ; Milt(jn vast and stronu' : And Shakspeare. captain of the host of Song. XXVII. i;a