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CANCELLED STANZA OF THE MASK OF ANARCHY.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

[Published by H. Buxton Forman, “The Mask of Anarchy” (“Facsimile of

Shelley’s manuscript”), 1887.]

 

(FOR WHICH STANZAS 68, 69 HAVE BEEN SUBSTITUTED.)

 

From the cities where from caves,

Like the dead from putrid graves,

Troops of starvelings gliding come,

Living Tenants of a tomb.

 

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