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Spirit of Plato

Percy Bysshe Shelley·1792–1822
Lines:7Movement:Romanticism
FROM THE GREEK. Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb?To what sublime and star-ypaven homeFloatest thou?--I am the image of swift Plato's spirit,Ascending heaven; Athens doth inheritHis corpse below.