Nature
Fragment: Rome and Nature
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Nature
Rome has fallen, ye see it lying
Heaped in undistinguished ruin:
Nature is alone undying.
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Codex Note
Written 1819. Published 1839.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Rome and Nature.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/187/.
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