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The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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3 Spirit of Plato

From the Greek

Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb?
To what sublime and star-ypaven home
Floatest thou?—
I am the image of swift Plato’s spirit,
Ascending heaven; Athens doth inherit _5
His corpse below.

NOTE: _5 doth Boscombe manuscript; does edition 1839.

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