[First printed by Mr. C.D. Locock, “Examination of the Shelley
Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library”, 1903, pages 33-7.]
(following 1._37.) When thou descendst each night with open eyes In torture, for a tyrant seldom sleeps, Thou never; … …
(following 1._195.) Which thou henceforth art doomed to interweave …
(following the first two words of 1._342.) [Of Hell:] I placed it in his choice to be The crown, or trampled refuse of the world With but one law itself a glorious boon— I gave— …
(following 1._707.)
SECOND SPIRIT:
I leaped on the wings of the Earth-star damp
As it rose on the steam of a slaughtered camp—
The sleeping newt heard not our tramp
As swift as the wings of fire may pass—
We threaded the points of long thick grass
Which hide the green pools of the morass
But shook a water-serpent’s couch
In a cleft skull, of many such
The widest; at the meteor’s touch
The snake did seem to see in dream
Thrones and dungeons overthrown
Visions how unlike his own…
’Twas the hope the prophecy
Which begins and ends in thee
…
(following 2.1._110.) Lift up thine eyes Panthea—they pierce they burn
PANTHEA:
Alas! I am consumed—I melt away
The fire is in my heart—
ASIA:
Thine eyes burn burn!—
Hide them within thine hair—
PANTHEA:
O quench thy lips
I sink I perish
ASIA:
Shelter me now—they burn
It is his spirit in their orbs…my life
Is ebbing fast—I cannot speak—