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From Percy Bysshe Shelley's Translations Of Homer

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Faust, Mephistopheles And Ignus Fatuus;

G_A The Limits of the sphere of dream,
D The bounds of truth… and false, are past. C A ...
D Lead us on, thou wandering gleam, C A . . .
D Lead us onward… far and fast, C A…G
F To the wide desert waste. C D…..DCA…

G_A But see, how swift advance and shift
D Trees behind trees… row by row,-C A……..
D How, cliff by cliff, rocks bend and lift C
D Their frowning foreheads… as we go.
F How they snort, and how they blow! C D…….
E_F The giant-snouted crags, ho! Ho! C D……DCA……

D Through the mossy sods and stones, C A……..
D Stream and streamlet… hurry down- C A…….
D A rushing throng!… A sound of song C A……
D Beneath the vault… of heaven is blown! C A…….
F Sweet notes of love,.. the speaking tones C D..
D Of this bright day, C sent down to say A…..
D That Paradise on earth is known, C A…..
D Resounds around, beneath, above. C A…….
D All we hope.. and all we love C A…….
F Finds a voice.. in this blithe strain, C D…
E_F And vibrates far o’er field and vale, C D…
E_F And which Echo, like the tale C D..
D Of old times, repeats again. C A……DCA……..

D To-whoo ! twhoo ! Near, nearer now C A……
D The sound of song, the rushing throng! C A…..
D Are the screech, the lapwing, and the jay, C A…..
D All awake as if ‘twere day ? C A……
F See, with long legs and belly wide, C D….
D A salamander in the brake! C

A Every root is like a snake, A…..D C A……
D With strange contortions through the night, C A….
D Curls, to seize or to affright ; C A……..
D And animated, strong, and many, C A…….
D They dart forth polypus-antennae, C A……..
D To blister with their poisonous spume C A……
D The wanderer. Through the dazzling gloom C A…….
F The many-coloured mice, that thread, C
D The dewy turf beneath our tread, C
E_F In troops each other’s motions cross, C
D Through the heath and through the moss ; C A…..
D And, in legions intertangled, C A…….
D Fire-flies flit,…. swarm and throng, C A…….
D Till all the mountain depths are spangled. C A…..
F Tell me! shall we go on or stay ? C D….
E_F Shall we onward ?..C… Come along! D…
C Everything is swept forward, onward, far away! A.
D The trees and masses intercept C A…….
D The sight, and wisps on every side C A…….
D Are puffed up and multiplied. C A……..
D CCCCCC A……._G DCA……DCA……TO END

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from Some Tunes Two Get Threw, track released July 9, 2006

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