IV

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

In Pisa's church a cup of sculptured gold

Was brimming with the blood of feuds forsworn:

A Sacrament more holy ne'er of old

Etrurians mingled mid the shades forlorn

Of moon-illumined forests, when....

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