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Round whom delight and fancy spread
Their guardian wings, without avail,
Is shipwrecked, and her captain dead.
The children of the stainless sea
Laid him ashore mysteriously.


V

O none of those who came to mourn
The body cold and water-worn,
Nor any of us in later days
Who walk at evening in soft ways
Could bring thee tribute of the morn
Or any music that repays
The soul of Adonais, borne
To heaven on thy fluted phrase.
Poets have wept; but which of them
Were fit to sing thy requiem?


VI

That song shall wait till delving time
Finds the lost treasures of earth's prime
When moil and tears and dire distress
Shall flee the dawn of joyousness,
When some new monarch of sweet rhyme

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