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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.

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 * 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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