Ariel: A Shelley Romance

ARIEL
A SHELLEY ROMANCE
ANDRÉ MAUROIS
TRANSLATED BY
ELLA D’ARCY
First published in 1924
ARIEL
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore;
And I saw it was filled with graves.
William Blake
In the year 1809 George III appointed as Headmaster of Eton, Dr. Keate, a terrible little man who considered the flogging-block a necessary station on the road to perfection, and who ended a sermon on the Sixth Beatitude by saying, “Now, boys, be pure in heart! For if not, I’ll flog you until you are!”