Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

From the cities where from caves,

Like the dead from putrid graves,

Troops of starvelings gliding come,

Living Tenants of a tomb.

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