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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelleyby Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fragment: 'Alas! This Is Not W...

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Fragment: Milton's Spirit

Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870.

I dreamed that Milton's spirit rose, and took
From life's green tree his Uranian lute;
And from his touch sweet thunder flowed, and shook
All human things built in contempt of man,—
And sanguine thrones and impious altars quaked, 
Prisons and citadels...