The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/The Vine-Shroud

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FRAGMENT: THE VINE-SHROUD

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

Flourishing vine, whose kindling clusters glow
Beneath the autumnal sun, none taste of thee;
For thou dost shroud a ruin, and below
The rotting bones of dead antiquity.