L

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

Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand;

      And one keen pyramid with wedge sublime,

      Pavilioning the dust of him who planned

      This refuge for his memory, doth stand

      Like flame transformed to marble; and beneath,

      A field is spread, on which a newer band

      Have pitched in Heaven's smile their camp of death,

Welcoming him we lose with scarce extinguished breath.

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