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Percy Shelley: Poems

Julian And Maddalo: Cancelled Fragments


'What think you the dead are?' 'Why, dust and clay,

What should they be?' ''Tis the last hour of day.

Look on the west, how beautiful it is _620

Vaulted with radiant vapours! The deep bliss

Of that unutterable light has made

The edges of that cloud ... fade

Into a hue, like some harmonious thought,

Wasting itself on that which it had wrought, _625

Till it dies ... and ... between

The light hues of the tender, pure, serene,

And infinite tranquillity of heaven.

Ay, beautiful! but when not...'

...

'Perhaps the only comfort which remains _630

Is the unheeded clanking of my chains,

The which I make, and call it melody.'


NOTES:

_45 may Hunt manuscript; can 1824.

_99 a one Hunt manuscript; an one 1824.

_105 sunk Hunt manuscript; sank 1824.

_108 ever Hunt manuscript; even 1824.

_119 in Hunt manuscript; from 1824.

_124 a Hunt manuscript; an 1824.

_171 That Hunt manuscript; Which 1824.

_175 mind Hunt manuscript; minds 1824.

_179 know 1824; see Hunt manuscript.

_188 those Hunt manuscript; the 1824.

_191 their Hunt manuscript; this 1824.

_218 Moons, etc., Hunt manuscript;

The line is wanting in editions 1824 and 1839.

_237 far Hunt manuscript; but 1824.

_270 nor Hunt manuscript; and 1824.

_292 cold Hunt manuscript; and 1824.

_318 least Hunt manuscript; last 1824.

_323 sweet Hunt manuscript; fresh 1824.

_356 have Hunt manuscript; hath 1824.

_361 in this keen Hunt manuscript; under this 1824.

_362 cry Hunt manuscript; eye 1824.

_372 on Hunt manuscript; in 1824.

_388 greet Hunt manuscript; meet 1824.

_390 your Hunt manuscript; thy 1824.

_417 his Hunt manuscript; its 1824.

_446 glance Hunt manuscript; glass 1824.

_447 with Hunt manuscript; near 1824.

_467 lip Hunt manuscript; life 1824.

_483 this Hunt manuscript; that 1824.

_493 I would Hunt manuscript; I'd 1824.

_510 despair Hunt manuscript; my care 1839.

_511 leant] See Editor's Note.

_518 were Hunt manuscript; was 1839.

_525 his Hunt manuscript; it 1824.

_530 on Hunt manuscript; in 1824.

_537 were now Hunt manuscript; now were 1824.

_588 regrets Hunt manuscript; regret 1824.

_569 but Hunt manuscript;

wanting in editions 1824 and 1839.

_574 his 1824; this [?] Hunt manuscript.