The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

CANCELLED STANZA OF THE MASK OF ANARCHY

[Published by H. Buxton Forman, The Mask of Anarchy (Facsimile of Shelley's MS.), 1887.]

(For which stanzas LXVIII, LXIX have been substituted.)

From the cities where from caves,
Like the dead from putrid graves,
Troops of starvelings gliding come,
Living Tenants of a tomb.