GREEK SOURCES OP SHELLEY^S ADONAIS 319 



distraught, the brambles that pierce her tender feet, become for 

 Urania, who reflects the delicate and sensitive nature of Keats, 



" Camps and cities rough with stone and steel, 

 And human hearts which to her airy tread, 

 Yielding not, wounded the invisible 

 Palms of her tender feet where'er they fell; 

 And barbed tongues and thoughts more sharp than they," etc. 



Stanzas XXY, XXVI. 



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"Leave me not wild and drear and comfortless 



As silent lightning leaves the starless night ! 



Leave me not ! cried Urania; 

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"Stay yet awhile ! speak to me once again; 

 Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live; 

 And in my heartless breast and burning brain 

 That word, that kiss shall all thoughts else survive, 

 With food of saddest memory kept alive. 

 Now thou art dead, as if it were a part 

 Of thee, my Adonais ! I would give 

 All that I am to be as thou now art, 

 But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart ! 



cf. Bion, 40-53. "When she saw, when she marked the irremedi- 

 able wound of Adonis, when she saw the dark blood upon the fainting 

 thigh, she lifted up her arms and cried in sorrow: "Abide with me, 

 Adonis; Abide, ill-starred Adonis, that 1 may come to thee for the 

 last time, that I may cast my arms about thee aud place my lips to 

 thine. 



Wake only for a little, Adonis, and kiss me one last kiss, kiss 

 me only so long as a kiss may live. * * * And I will drink thy 

 love, and this kiss I shall cherish, even as I cherish thee, Adonis, 

 now that thou, ill-fated, dost flee from me, far from me dost thou 

 flee, Adonis; down to Acheron thou goest, to the loathed and cruel 



