The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/'The viewless and invisible consequence'

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FRAGMENT: 'THE VIEWLESS AND INVISIBLE CONSEQUENCE'

[Published by Rossetti, Complete P. W. of P. B. S., 1870.]

The viewless and invisible Consequence
Watches thy goings-out, and comings-in,
And . . . hovers o'er thy guilty sleep,
Unveiling every new-born deed, and thoughts
More ghastly than those deeds— 5

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