Spirit of Plato
FROM THE GREEK.
Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb? To what sublime and star-ypaven home Floatest thou?-- I am the image of swift Plato's spirit, Ascending heaven; Athens doth inherit His corpse below.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
FROM THE GREEK.
Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb? To what sublime and star-ypaven home Floatest thou?-- I am the image of swift Plato's spirit, Ascending heaven; Athens doth inherit His corpse below.
A lone voice calls up to an eagle circling over a tomb, asking where it’s floating off to—what sublime, star-paved home draws it upward. The eagle replies that it is not a real bird but an image of Plato’s swift spirit, now ascending toward heaven.
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