The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/The Lake's Margin

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FRAGMENT: THE LAKE'S MARGIN

[Published by W. M. Rossetti, 1870.]

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.