I

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Lines written during the Castlereagh Administration

Corpses are cold in the tomb;

Stones on the pavement are dumb;

Abortions are dead in the womb,

And their mothers look pale—like the death-white shore

Of Albion, free no more.

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