HELLAS:Percy Bysshe Shelly

[FONT=&quot]HELLAS[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]THE world's great age begins anew, [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The golden years return, [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The earth doth like a snake renew [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Her wintry weeds outworn: [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. [/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]A brighter Hellas rears its mountains [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]From waves serener far; [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]A new Peneus rolls his fountains [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Against the morning star; [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep. [/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]A loftier Argo claims the main, [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Fraught with a later prize; [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Another Orpheus sings again,[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]And loves, and weeps, and dies; [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]A new Ulysses leaves once more [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Calypso for his native shore. [/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]O write no more the tale of Troy, [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]If earth Death's scroll must be-- [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Nor mix with Laian rage the joy [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Which dawns upon the free, [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Although a subtler Sphinx renew [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Riddles of death Thebes never knew. [/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Another Athens shall arise, [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]And to remoter time [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The splendour of its prime; [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]And leave, if naught so bright may live, [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]All earth can take or Heaven give. [/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Saturn and Love their long repose [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Shall burst, more bright and good [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Than all who fell, than One who rose, [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Than many unsubdued: [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers, [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]But votive tears and symbol flowers. [/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]O cease! must hate and death return? [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Cease! must men kill and die? [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Cease! drain not its dregs the urn [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Of bitter prophecy! [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The world is weary of the past-- [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]O might it die or rest at last![/FONT]

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