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Fragment: 'I Stood upon a Heaven-Cleaving Turret'

By Percy Bysshe ShelleySource: Percy Bysshe Shelley - PoetryDB (Public Domain)51 words

I stood upon a heaven-cleaving turret

Which overlooked a wide Metropolis--

And in the temple of my heart my Spirit

Lay prostrate, and with parted lips did kiss

The dust of Desolations hearth--

And with a voice too faint to falter

It shook that trembling fane with its weak prayer

'Twas noon,--the sleeping skies were blue

The city

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