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.