IN HOROLOGIUM.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
[Published by Medwin, “Life of Shelley”, 1847; dated 1809.]
Inter marmoreas Leonorae pendula colles
Fortunata nimis Machina dicit horas.
Quas MANIBUS premit illa duas insensa papillas
Cur mihi sit DIGITO tangere, amata, nefas?
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