Fragment: 'I Stood Upon A Heaven-Cleaving Turret'.

    By Percy Bysshe Shelley



    I stood upon a heaven-cleaving turret
    Which overlooked a wide Metropolis -
    And in the temple of my heart my Spirit
    Lay prostrate, and with parted lips did kiss
    The dust of Desolations [altar] hearth -
    And with a voice too faint to falter
    It shook that trembling fane with its weak prayer
    'Twas noon, - the sleeping skies were blue
    The city



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