...smoothest and happiest 'median stress,' prolonged with swelling fulness on the emphatic words : — 4. " Hail to thee, blithe spirit, — Bird thou never wert,...higher From the earth thou springest; Like a cloud of fixe, The blue deep tbou wingest, And singing still dost soar, aud soaring ever singest. " In the golden...

...CCXLI TO A SKYLARK ' AIL to thee, blithe Spirit I Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it H Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest...singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just...

...winged desire, always rising, aspiring, singing, " like an unbodied joy, whose race is just begun:" " Hail to thee, blithe spirit, — Bird thou never wert,...Higher still, and higher, From the earth thou springest j Like a cloud of tire The blue deep thou wingest ; And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest....

...winged desire, always rising, aspiring, singing, " like an unbodied joy, whose race is just begun :" " Hail to thee, blithe spirit,— Bird thou never wert,...art. Higher still, and higher, From the earth thou spriugest ; Like a cloud of fire The blue deep thou wingest ; And singing still dost soar, and soaring...

...by a tiling so small. Shelley has celebrated the wildly varied strain in harmonious numbers : — " Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...of unpremeditated art. " Higher still and higher, Prom the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire, The blue deep thou wingest, And singing gtill...

...JA That from heaven, or near it, pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. 2. Higher still, and higher, from the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever, singest 8. In the golden lightening of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, thou dost float and...

...the ocean-floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's, or Shelley's Skylark (ababsb6): Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. For further variations of the Spenserian stanza see Schipper, EM II, 2, 768 — 791, from whom some...

...smoothest and happiest ' median stress,' prolonged with swelling fulness on the emphatic words : — 4 " Hail to thee, blithe spirit, — Bird thou never wert,...strains of unpremeditated art. " Higher still and higher The Hue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. " In the golden lightning...

...>ronautcs and SDK* Adrnmsirat>on Figure 29. 1 . The plaque on board Pioneer 10. Photo courtesy NASA. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. a Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), To a Skylark 2.8 billion miles, taking them (at the speed of light)...

..."Ozymandias" was first published by Shelley's friend Leigh Hunt in his periodical The Examiner (January 1818). To a Skylark Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou...singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er where clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just...