II

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Lines: 'When the lamp is shattered'

      As music and splendour

Survive not the lamp and the lute,

      The heart's echoes render

No song when the spirit is mute:—

      No song but sad dirges,

Like the wind through a ruined cell,

      Or the mournful surges

That ring the dead seaman's knell.

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