I

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of To the Lord Chancellor

Thy country's curse is on thee, darkest crest

Of that foul, knotted, many-headed worm

Which rends our Mother's bosom—Priestly Pest!

Masked Resurrection of a buried Form!

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