Fragment on Keats

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

'Here lieth One whose name was writ on water.

      But, ere the breath that could erase it blew,

Death, in remorse for that fell slaughter,

      Death, the immortalizing winter, flew

      Athwart the stream,—and time's printless torrent grew

A scroll of crystal, blazoning the name

      Of Adonais!

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