XIV

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

And in the roofless huts of vast morasses,

Deserted by the fever-stricken serf,

All overgrown with reeds and long rank grasses,

And hillocks heaped of moss-inwoven turf,

And where the huge and speckled aloe made,

Rooted in stones, a broad and pointed shade,—

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