+Stanza 24,+ 1. 2, _Through camps and cities_, &c. In highly figurative language, this stanza pictures the passage of Urania from 'her secret paradise' to the death-chamber of Adonais in Rome, as if the spiritual essence and external form of the goddess were wounded by the uncongenial atmosphere of human malice and detraction through which she has to pass. The whole description is spiritualized from that of Bion (p. 63):-- 'Wildered, ungirt, unsandalled--the thorns pierce Her hastening feet, and drink her sacred blood.' 11. 4,5. _The invisible Palms of her tender feet._ Shelley more than once uses 'palms' for 'soles' of the feet. See _Prometheus Unbound_, Act 4:-- 'Our feet now, every palm, Are sandalled with calm'; and _The Triumph of Life_:-- 'As she moved under the mass Of the deep cavern, and, with palms so tender Their tread broke not the mirror of the billow, Glided along the river.' Perhaps Shelley got this usage from the Italian: in that language the web-feet of aquatic birds are termed 'palme.' 11. 8, 9. _Whose sacred blood, like the young tears of May, Paved with eternal flowers that undeserving way._ The tears of May are rain-drops; young, because the year is not far advanced. 'That undeserving way' seems a very poor expression. See (p. 64) the passage from Bion: 'A tear the Paphian sheds for each blood-drop of Adonis, and tears and blood on the earth are turned to flowers.' +Stanza 25,+ 1. 3. _Death ... blushed to annihilation._ This very daring hyperbole will hardly bear--nor does it want--manipulation into prose. Briefly, the nature of Death is to be pallid: therefore Death, in blushing, abnegates his very nature, and almost ceases to be Death. 11. 3, 4. _The breath Revisited those lips_, &c. As Death tended towards 'annihilation,' so Adonais tended towards revival. 1. 7. _'Silent lightning.'_ This means, I suppose, lightning unaccompanied by thunder--summer lightning. +Stanza 26,+ 1. 1. _'Stay yet awhile.'_ See Bion (p. 64): 'Stay, Adonis! stay, dearest one!' 1. 2, _'Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live.'_ See as above:-- 'That I may kiss thee now for the last time-- But for as long as one short kiss may live!' 1. 3. _'My heartless breast.'_ Urania's breast will henceforth be heartless, in the sense that, having bestowed her whole heart upon Adonais, she will have none to bestow upon any one else: so I understand the epithet. 1. 4. _'That word, that kiss, shall all thoughts else survive,'_ &c. See Bion (p. 64): 'This kiss will I treasure,' &c.