I

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

The waters are flashing,

The white hail is dashing.

The lightnings are glancing,

The hoar-spray is dancing—

Away!


The whirlwind is rolling,

The thunder is tolling,

The forest is swinging.

The minster bells ringing

Come away!


The Earth is like Ocean,

Wreck-strewn and in motion:

Bird, beast, man and worm

Have crept out of the storm—

Come away!

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