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1819–1891

SHELLEY'S VISION

Herman Melville

Wandering late by morning seas When my heart with pain was low — Hate the censor pelted me — Deject I saw my shadow go.

In elf-caprice of bitter tone I too would pelt the pelted one: At my shadow I cast a stone. When lo, upon that sun-lit ground

I saw the quivering phantom take The likeness of St. Stephen crowned: Then did self-reverence awake.

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