Fragment: ‘And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned’

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Poetical Works”, 1839, 1st edition.]

And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal
Is that ’tis my distinction; if I fall,
I shall not weep out of the vital day,
To-morrow dust, nor wear a dull decay.

NOTE: _2 ’Tis that is or In that is cj. A.C. Bradley.