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Poems Of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Dream of the Unknown, A

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Dream of the Unknown, A

I dream'd that as I wander'd by the way Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring, And gentle odours led my steps astray, Mix'd with a sound of waters murmuring Along a shelving bank of turf, which lay Under a copse, and hardly dared to fling Its green arms round the bosom of the stream, But kiss'd it and then fled, as Thou mightest in dream.

There grew pied wind - flowers and violets, Daisies, those pearl'd Arcturi of the earth, The constellated flower that never sets; Faint oxlips; tender blue - bells, at whose birth The sod scarce heaved; and that ...

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