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Shelley
Posted by: brigitte (---.utaonline.at)
Date: November 06, 2021 01:22PM

Does anybody recognize these lines by Shelley? What poem are they from?

O´Thou immortal Deity
Whose throne is in he 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.

Thank you.


Re: Shelley
Posted by: Henry (195.8.171.---)
Date: November 06, 2021 02:07PM

I didn't find the phrase in Queen Mab on [www.photoaspects.com] />
This is Google's cache of [www.shelleystory.co.uk] />
Below are reprinted the sleeve notes from the CDs The Shelley Story and Lord Byron and the Greek War. They contain the lyrics of the songs, their sources, and some discussion of issues arising from them.

IMMORTAL DEITY
Sources:
Queen Mab (adapted from notes)
The Defence of Poetry
Immortal Deity.

There is no God;
Or rather, there is no creative God.
The hypothesis of a pervading spirit,
Co-eternal with the universe
Remains unshaken.

This power arises from within:
Poetry redeems from decay
The visitations of the divinity in man.

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 !


Re: Shelley
Posted by: Tigermonkey (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: November 06, 2021 06:31PM

According to Project Gutenberg's Complete Works of Shelley, Oxford Edition, (ed T Hutchinson, 1914), it is listed as
Fragment: "O Thou Immortal Deity", Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.
Only contains those 5 lines.




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