The Lake's Margin

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

The fierce beasts of the woods and wildernesses

Track not the steps of him who drinks of it;

For the light breezes, which for ever fleet

Around its margin, heap the sand thereon.

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