VII

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Song to the Men of England

Shrink to your cellars, holes, and cells;

In halls ye deck another dwells.

Why shake the chains ye wrought?

Ye see

The steel ye tempered glance on ye.

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