lence-stricken multitudes: O thou, (c)
             Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed (b)
             The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, (modified c)
             Each like a corpse within its grave, until (d)
             Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow (modified c)
             Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (d)
             (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) (e)
             With living hues and odours plain and hill (d)
             Wild spirits, which art moving everywhere; (e)
             Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear! (modified e)
             According to Shelley, one day a particular "tempestuous wind" past him while he was in a wood by the Arno River that flows through Florence. In this particular poem, Shelley takes a vision and stretches it to the point that "it should awaken thoughts about the future:
             Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
             Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
             Be through my lips to unawakened earth
             If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
             The first two stanzas, which have irregul
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