II

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

From a single cloud the lightening flashes,

      Whilst a thousand isles are illumined around,

Earthquake is trampling one city to ashes,

      An hundred are shuddering and tottering; the sound

            Is bellowing underground.

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