IV

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

Oh, let a father's curse be on thy soul,

And let a daughter's hope be on thy tomb;

Be both, on thy gray head, a leaden cowl

To weigh thee down to thine approaching doom.

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