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by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Published 01/07/1880
Part of Hymn to Mercury, translated from the Greek of Homer
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And sneezed and shuddered—Phoebus on the grass
Him threw, and whilst all that he had designed
He did perform—eager although to pass,
Apollo darted from his mighty mind
Towards the subtle babe the following scoff:—
'Do not imagine this will get you off,