Fragment: 'O Thou Immortal Deity'
O thou immortal deity Whose throne is in the depth of human thought, I do adjure thy power and thee By all that man may be, by all that he is not, By all that he has been and yet must be!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
O thou immortal deity Whose throne is in the depth of human thought, I do adjure thy power and thee By all that man may be, by all that he is not, By all that he has been and yet must be!
Right from the start, Shelley speaks to a god that doesn’t sit in some distant heaven but on a throne “in the depth of human thought.” The poem is a single, unbroken sentence—a breathless spell meant to awaken this inner divinity.
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