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1792–1822

FRAGMENT:‘ WAKE THE SERPENT NOT’.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wake the serpent not — lest he Should not know the way to go,— Let him crawl which yet lies sleeping Through the deep grass of the meadow!

Not a bee shall hear him creeping, Not a may-fly shall awaken From its cradling blue-bell shaken, Not the starlight as he's sliding

Through the grass with silent gliding.

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