Death & Dying
Spirit of Plato
Translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley · From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Death & Dying
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.
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Translated by Shelley from the Greek.
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