
No evento, diante de uma multidão de dezenas de milhares de pessoas, Mick leu um excerto do belo poema Adonais, que Shelley havia escrito por ocasião da morte de seu grande amigo, o também poeta John Keats.
"Adonais"
An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, de Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,
He hath awaken'd from the dream of life;
'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings. We decay
Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume us day by day,
And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
(...)
The One remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-colour'd glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.--Die,
If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek!
Follow where all is fled!
(Leia o poema completo na fonte: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1879.html)
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