...for differences in minutes and aeons count nothing in the eternal Now. Says Shelley, in " Hellas" : " Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...bubbles on a river, Sparkling, bursting, borne away." In the Praxiteles Hermes there is an indescribable melancholy, a seeming consciousness of his office...

...the cheerless summit of our thought, we should find to be ours the vision of the poet who sang — " Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river, Flashing, bursting, borne away." It has, however, in its philosophy of evil, laid less stress on the...

...splendour-winged chariot of the sun, eclipse The armies of the golden stars, each one, — Cane. Adon. 34. 1562 Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. — Hell. 197. 1563 Swift as the radiant shapes of sleep From one whose dreams are Paradise Fly, when...

...its rapidity, and manly in its gentleness. Take but these lines from another chorus of Hellas: — " Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...light Gathered around their chariots as they go." The vigour of these verses is as great as their beauty. A whole system of philosophy is condensed into...

...lines from another chorus of Hellas: — " Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From ereation to deeay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne...Who, through birth's orient portal And death's dark ehasm hurrying to and fro, Clothe their uneeasing flight In the brief dust and light Gathered around...

...like stars — they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. teverally. CHORUS Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...bubbles on a river, Sparkling, bursting, borne away. 100 But they are still immortal Who, tli rough birth's orient portal And death's dark chasm hurrying...

...Desart, or a Paradise : Let the beautiful and the brave Share her glory, or a grave. Hellas. CHORUS. Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...their unceasing flight In the brief dust and light Gather'd around their chariots as they go ; New shapes they still may weave, New gods, new laws receive,...

...all probability they will supersede, without considering their merits in a relation more universal." Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. Bnt they are still immortal Who, through birth's orient portal, And death's dark chasm hurrying to...

...brings Of waters. The processes of change and of the transitoriness of things are finely described : Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...bubbles on a river, Sparkling, bursting, borne away. The sea becomes a symbol of thought. So Greece is Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline...

...stars—they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. [Exeunt severally. CHORUS Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to...still immortal Who, through birth's Orient portal 123 And death's dark chasm hurrying to and fro, Clothe their unceasing flight In the brief dust and...