da momentary mirror of the eternal. Such an attitude towards the
least controllable of passions has several drawbacks: it involves a certain
inhumanityand it is only possible for long to one who remains ignorant of
himself and cannot see that part of the force impelling him is blind
attraction towards a pretty face. It also has the result thatif the lover is a
poethis love-songs will be sad. Obsessed by the idea of communion with
some divine perfectionhe must needs be often cast downnot only by
finding thatIxion-likehe has embraced a cloud (as Shelley said of
himself and Emilia)but becauseeven when the object of his affection is
worthycomplete communion is easier to desire than to attain. Thus
Shelley's love-songs are just what might be expected. If he does strain to
the moment of ingress into the divine beingit is to swoon with excess of
blissas at the end of 'Epipsychidion'or as in the 'Indian Serenade':
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More often he exhales pure melancholy:
See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one
another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother. And
the sunlight clasps the earthAnd the moonbeams kiss the seyilai:
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