after Shelley’s Queen Mab
of jet So fair so wonderful a star over the suns the burnished over ocean bright couch Shaded there Be ethereal footsteps like rocks of Spells Enter the wave Edged wave When the will; Yet not; Of purple gleam
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in glittering yon flood of thrill beaming over the Spirit Peeps like rocks of Heaven Stretching flood of fear the real palace Hung over the wave Upon the real palace couch Shaded their passive swell in red the immense jet And yet the sun's palace couch The ethereal palace couch Hung on the immense golden clouds of thirst