--- title: "A Philosophical Poem (in 9 parts) - Part 8 - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "A Philosophical Poem (in 9 parts) - Part 8: Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1813 A Philosophical Poem (in 9 parts) - Part 8 VIII THE FAIRY 'The present and the past thou hast beheld. Now, Spirit, learn, The secrets of the future." url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/2666-history-shelley-queen-mab8.html" date: "2026-11-06T00:21:54+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # A Philosophical Poem (in 9 parts) - Part 8 ![A Philosophical Poem (in 9 parts) - Part 8](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/history-shelley-queen-mab8.png) | **Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1813** A Philosophical Poem (in 9 parts) - Part 8 > **VIII** > > THE FAIRY > 'The present and the past thou hast beheld. > It was a desolate sight. Now, Spirit, learn, > The secrets of the future. -Time! > Unfold the brooding pinion of thy gloom, > Render thou up thy half-devoured babes, > And from the cradles of eternity, > Where millions lie lulled to their portioned sleep > By the deep murmuring stream of passing things, > Tear thou that gloomy shroud. -Spirit, behold > Thy glorious destiny!' > > Joy to the Spirit came. > Through the wide rent in Time's eternal veil, > Hope was seen beaming through the mists of fear; > Earth was no longer hell; > Love, freedom, health had given > Their ripeness to the manhood of its prime, > And all its pulses beat > Symphonious to the planetary spheres; > Then dulcet music swelled > Concordant with the life-strings of the soul; > It throbbed in sweet and languid beatings there, > Catching new life from transitory death; > Like the vague sighings of a wind at even > That wakes the wavelets of the slumbering sea > And dies on the creation of its breath, > And sinks and rises, falls and swells by fits, > Was the pure stream of feeling > That sprung from these sweet notes, > And o'er the Spirit's human sympathies > With mild and gentle motion calmly flowed. > > Joy to the Spirit came, - > Such joy as when a lover sees > The chosen of his soul in happiness > And witnesses her peace > Whose woe to him were bitterer than death; > Sees her unfaded cheek > Glow mantling in first luxury of health, > Thrills with her lovely eyes, > Which like two stars amid the heaving main > Sparkle through liquid bliss. > > Then in her triumph spoke the Fairy Queen: > 'I will not call the ghost of ages gone > To unfold the frightful secrets of its lore; > The present now is past, > And those events that desolate the earth > Have faded from the memory of Time, > Who dares not give reality to that > Whose being I annul. To me is given > The wonders of the human world to keep, > Space, matter, time and mind. Futurity > Exposes now its treasure; let the sight > Renew and strengthen all thy failing hope. > O human Spirit! spur thee to the goal > Where virtue fixes universal peace, > And, 'midst the ebb and flow of human things, > Show somewhat stable, somewhat certain still, > A light-house o'er the wild of dreary waves. > > 'The habitable earth is full of bliss; > Those wastes of frozen billows that were hurled > By everlasting snow-storms round the poles, > Where matter dared not vegetate or live, > But ceaseless frost round the vast solitude > Bound its broad zone of stillness, are unloosed; > And fragrant zephyrs there from spicy isles > Ruffle the placid ocean-deep, that rolls > Its broad, bright surges to the sloping sand, > Whose roar is wakened into echoings sweet > To murmur through the heaven-breathing groves > And melodize with man's blest nature there. > > 'Those deserts of immeasurable sand, > Whose age-collected fervors scarce allowed > A bird to live, a blade of grass to spring, > Where the shrill chirp of the green lizard's love > Broke on the sultry silentness alone, > Now teem with countless rills and shady woods, > Cornfields and pastures and white cottages; > And where the startled wilderness beheld > A savage conqueror stained in kindred blood, > A tigress sating with the flesh of lambs > The unnatural famine of her toothless cubs, > Whilst shouts and howlings through the desert rang, - > Sloping and smooth the daisy-spangled lawn, > Offering sweet incense to the sunrise, smiles > To see a babe before his mother's door, > Sharing his morning's meal > With the green and golden basilisk > That comes to lick his feet. > > 'Those trackless deeps, where many a weary sail > Has seen above the illimitable plain > Morning on night and night on morning rise, > Whilst still no land to greet the wanderer spread > Its shadowy mountains on the sun-bright sea, > Where the loud roarings of the tempest-waves > So long have mingled with the gusty wind > In melancholy loneliness, and swept > The desert of those ocean solitudes > But vocal to the sea-bird's harrowing shriek, > The bellowing monster, and the rushing storm; > Now to the sweet and many-mingling sounds > Of kindliest human impulses respond. > Those lonely realms bright garden-isles begem, > With lightsome clouds and shining seas between, > And fertile valleys, resonant with bliss, > Whilst green woods overcanopy the wave, > Which like a toil-worn laborer leaps to shore > To meet the kisses of the flowrets there. > > 'All things are recreated, and the flame > Of consentaneous love inspires all life. > The fertile bosom of the earth gives suck > To myriads, who still grow beneath her care, > Rewarding her with their pure perfectness; > The balmy breathings of the wind inhale > Her virtues and diffuse them all abroad; > Health floats amid the gentle atmosphere, > Glows in the fruits and mantles on the stream; > No storms deform the beaming brow of heaven, > Nor scatter in the freshness of its pride > The foliage of the ever-verdant trees; > But fruits are ever ripe, flowers ever fair, > And autumn proudly bears her matron grace, > Kindling a flush on the fair cheek of spring, > Whose virgin bloom beneath the ruddy fruit > Reflects its tint and blushes into love. > > 'The lion now forgets to thirst for blood; > There might you see him sporting in the sun > Beside the dreadless kid; his claws are sheathed, > His teeth are harmless, custom's force has made > His nature as the nature of a lamb. > Like passion's fruit, the nightshade's tempting bane > Poisons no more the pleasure it bestows; > All bitterness is past; the cup of joy > Unmingled mantles to the goblet's brim > And courts the thirsty lips it fled before. > > But chief, ambiguous man, he that can know > More misery, and dream more joy than all; > Whose keen sensations thrill within his breast > To mingle with a loftier instinct there, > Lending their power to pleasure and to pain, > Yet raising, sharpening, and refining each; > Who stands amid the ever-varying world, > The burden or the glory of the earth; > He chief perceives the change; his being notes > The gradual renovation and defines > Each movement of its progress on his mind. > > 'Man, where the gloom of the long polar night > Lowers o'er the snow-clad rocks and frozen soil, > Where scarce the hardiest herb that braves the frost > Basks in the moonlight's ineffectual glow, > Shrank with the plants, and darkened with the night; > His chilled and narrow energies, his heart > Insensible to courage, truth or love, > His stunted stature and imbecile frame, > Marked him for some abortion of the earth, > Fit compeer of the bears that roamed around, > Whose habits and enjoyments were his own; > His life a feverish dream of stagnant woe, > Whose meagre wants, but scantily fulfilled, > Apprised him ever of the joyless length > Which his short being's wretchedness had reached; > His death a pang which famine, cold and toil > Long on the mind, whilst yet the vital spark > Clung to the body stubbornly, had brought: > All was inflicted here that earth's revenge > Could wreak on the infringers of her law; > One curse alone was spared -the name of God. > > 'Nor, where the tropics bound the realms of day > With a broad belt of mingling cloud and flame, > Where blue mists through the unmoving atmosphere > Scattered the seeds of pestilence and fed > Unnatural vegetation, where the land > Teemed with all earthquake, tempest and disease, > Was man a nobler being; slavery > Had crushed him to his country's blood-stained dust; > Or he was bartered for the fame of power, > Which, all internal impulses destroying, > Makes human will an article of trade; > Or he was changed with Christians for their gold > And dragged to distant isles, where to the sound > Of the flesh-mangling scourge he does the work > Of all-polluting luxury and wealth, > Which doubly visits on the tyrants' heads > The long-protracted fulness of their woe; > Or he was led to legal butchery, > To turn to worms beneath that burning sun > Where kings first leagued against the rights of men > And priests first traded with the name of God. > > 'Even where the milder zone afforded man > A seeming shelter, yet contagion there, > Blighting his being with unnumbered ills, > Spread like a quenchless fire; nor truth till late > Availed to arrest its progress or create > That peace which first in bloodless victory waved > Her snowy standard o'er this favored clime; > There man was long the train-bearer of slaves, > The mimic of surrounding misery, > The jackal of ambition's lion-rage, > The bloodhound of religion's hungry zeal. > > 'Here now the human being stands adorning > This loveliest earth with taintless body and mind; > Blest from his birth with all bland impulses, > Which gently in his noble bosom wake > All kindly passions and all pure desires. > Him, still from hope to hope the bliss pursuing > Which from the exhaustless store of human weal > Draws on the virtuous mind, the thoughts that rise > In time-destroying infiniteness gift > With self-enshrined eternity, that mocks > The unprevailing hoariness of age; > And man, once fleeting o'er the transient scene > Swift as an unremembered vision, stands > Immortal upon earth; no longer now > He slays the lamb that looks him in the face, > And horribly devours his mangled flesh, > Which, still avenging Nature's broken law, > Kindled all putrid humors in his frame, > All evil passions and all vain belief, > Hatred, despair and loathing in his mind, > The germs of misery, death, disease and crime. > No longer now the wingèd habitants, > That in the woods their sweet lives sing away, > Flee from the form of man; but gather round, > And prune their sunny feathers on the hands > Which little children stretch in friendly sport > Towards these dreadless partners of their play. > All things are void of terror; man has lost > His terrible prerogative, and stands > An equal amidst equals; happiness > And science dawn, though late, upon the earth; > Peace cheers the mind, health renovates the frame; > Disease and pleasure cease to mingle here, > Reason and passion cease to combat there; > Whilst each unfettered o'er the earth extend > Their all-subduing energies, and wield > The sceptre of a vast dominion there; > Whilst every shape and mode of matter lends > Its force to the omnipotence of mind, > Which from its dark mine drags the gem of truth > To decorate its paradise of peace.' > > **[Part 9](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/2667-history-shelley-queen-mab9.html)** | A note on this archive. 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