...MILLENNIAL GREECE. BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. (From " Hellas.") [For biographical sketch, see Vol. 8, p. 311.] The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds...empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far ; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against...

...contains such a stanza as this : — " Another Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far ; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against the morning...bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep." 90 How much truer, how much more satisfying is this than the love-making of the earth and the moon...

...of nature. Nothing existed that to him was not a minister of grace." — GB Smith. ILLUSTRATIONS. " The world's great age begins anew, The golden years...and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendor of...

...redressed. Man was to become divine. That was the new vision which illumined the world of nature and man : " The world's great age begins anew, The golden years...doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn." Thus sings the chorus in Shelley's Hellas. In Prometheus Unbound the poet hears a voice of Unseen Spirits...

...world." The final Chorus begins triumphantly, echoing the Pollio and its prophecy of a golden age — The world's great age begins anew, The golden years...and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. But it ends with a dying fall — Oh, cease ! must hate and death return ? Cease ! must men kill and...

...feet Where the earth and ocean meet, And all things seem only one In the universal sun. 607. Hellas '"THE world's great age begins anew, .* The golden...weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires glcnm Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far;...

...morrow, The devotion to something-^afar From the sphere of our sorrow? (1821.) LAST CHORUS OF 'HELLAS.' The world's great age begins anew, The golden years...empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far ; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against...

...great restoration, a new birth like that proclaimed later with the silver trumpet of a Shelley — The world's great age begins anew, The golden years...doth, like a snake, renew Her winter weeds outworn. The story of Euclid illustrates clearly the intellectual side of this renewal of life, and casts some...

...set ; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on. uMas. Line 221, The world's great age begins anew, The golden years...doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn. Line ioeo. What ! alive, and so bold, 0 earth ? Written on hearing the Newt of the Death of Napoleon....

...great restoration, a new birth like that proclaimed later with the silver trumpet of a Shelley — The world's great age begins anew, The golden years...doth, like a snake, renew Her winter weeds outworn. The story of Euclid illustrates clearly the intellectual side of this renewal of life, and casts some...