VIII

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Marianne's Dream

But piled around, with summits hid

In lines of cloud at intervals,

Stood many a mountain pyramid

Among whose everlasting walls

Two mighty cities shone, and ever

Through the red mist their domes did quiver.

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