Prefaced to the score are these excerpts from Shelley's poem; they are quoted here together with an indication of the character of the music which introduces each corresponding section of the tone-poem:
(A)
"A lady-witch there lived on Atlas' mountain
Within a cavern by a secret fountain."
[A tranquil passage for solo violin, muted.][5]
(B)
"'Tis said, she was first changed into a vapour,
And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit,