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1792–1822

FRAGMENT: THE LAKE'S MARGIN.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fierce beasts of the woods and wildernesses Track not the steps of him who drinks of it; For the light breezes, which for ever fleet Around its margin, heap the sand thereon.

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FRAGMENT: THE LAKE'S MARGIN. · Percy Bysshe Shelley · Poetry Cove