Poem: “Shelley’s Vision” by Herman Melville

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Shelley’s Vision

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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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