II

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Roman's Chamber

It was once a Roman's chamber,

      Where he kept his darkest revels.

And the wild weeds twine and clamber;

      It was then a chasm for devils.

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