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Epigram III: Spirit of Plato

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

From the Greek.
Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb?
To what sublime and star-ypaven home
Floatest thou?--
I am the image of swift Plato's spirit,
Ascending heaven; Athens doth inherit
His corpse below.




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