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Shelley's Vision
By Herman Melville

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     Wandering late by morning seas
       When my heart with pain was low—
     Hate the censor pelted me—
       Deject I saw my shadow go.

     In elf-caprice of bitter tone
     I too would pelt the pelted one:
     At my shadow I cast a stone.

     When lo, upon that sun-lit ground
       I saw the quivering phantom take
     The likeness of St. Stephen crowned:
       Then did self-reverence awake.
 
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