Full Title: The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Highlights
Matilda Gathering Flowers.
From the Purgatorio of Dante, Canto 28, Lines 1-51.
And earnest to explore within — around —
The divine wood, whose thick green living woof
Tempered the young day to the sight — I wound
Up the green slope, beneath the forest’s roof,
With slow, soft steps leaving the mountain’s steep,
And sought those inmost labyrinths, motion-proof
Against the air, that in that stillness deep
And solemn, struck upon my forehead bare,
The slow, soft stroke of a continuous…
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