FRAGMENT: MAY THE LIMNER.
[This and the three following Fragments were edited from manuscript
Shelley D1 at the Bodleian Library and published by Mr. C.D. Locock,
"Examination", etc., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903. They are printed
here as belonging probably to the year 1821.]
When May is painting with her colours gay
The landscape sketched by April her sweet twin…
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FRAGMENT: BEAUTY'S HALO.
[Published by Mr. C.D. Locock, "Examination", etc, 1903.]
Thy beauty hangs around thee like
Splendour around the moon—
Thy voice, as silver bells that strike
Upon
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FRAGMENT: 'THE DEATH KNELL IS RINGING'.
('This reads like a study for "Autumn, A Dirge"' (Locock). Might it not be part of a projected Fit v. of "The Fugitives"?—ED.)