Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy
[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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