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The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems

Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)

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FRAGMENT: MILTON'S SPIRIT

I dreamed that Milton's spirit rose, and took
From the life's green tree his Uranian lute;
And from his touch sweet thunder flowed, and shook
All human things built in contempt of man,—
And sanguine thrones and impious altars quaked,
Prisons and citadels [OMITTED]
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