The Vine-Shroud

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

Flourishing vine, whose kindling clusters glow

Beneath the autumnal sun, none taste of thee;

For thou dost shroud a ruin, and below

The rotting bones of dead antiquity.

#autumn #impermanence #nature reclaiming #percy bysshe shelley #ruins

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