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...friend Keats rested, " after life's fitful fever." In his lament over him, Shelley says, — " Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave, the...city, and the wilderness ; And where its wrecks like shatter'd mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses, dress The bones of desolation's...

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...memory, he has thus described the spot that was soon to hold his own remains:— Go tbou to Rome,—at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness ; And where its wrecks like shatter'd mountains rise, And (lowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's...

...In the last verses of the elegy, he speaks of it again with the same feeling of its beauty : — " The spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to...infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing tlowers along the grass is spread. " And gray walls moulder round, on which dull lime Feeds like slow...

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...waged contention with their times decay, And of the past are all that cannot pass away. XLIX. Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave, the...mountains rise. And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dregg The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps...