Nature
Fragment: The Lake’s Margin
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Nature
The fierce beasts of the woods and wildernesses
Track not the steps of him who drinks of it;
For the light breezes, which for ever fleet
Around its margin, heap the sand thereon.
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Codex Note
Written 1818. Published 1870.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: The Lake’s Margin.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/173/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: The Lake’s Margin.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/173/.
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