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 | The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems |  |
FRAGMENT: ‘WAKE THE SERPENT NOT’
Wake the serpent not—lest heShould not know the way to go,—
Let him crawl which yet lies sleeping
Through the deep grass of the meadow!
Not a bee shall hear him creeping,
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From its cradling blue-bell shaken,
Not the starlight as he's sliding
Through the grass with silent gliding.
| The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems | |