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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRAGMENT OF A SONNET. FAREWELL TO NORTH DEVON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Where man's profane and tainting hand
Last Line: That load in grandeur cambria's emerald vales.
Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Farewell; Parting
First Line: Where man's profane and tainting hand
Last Line: That load in grandeur cambria's emerald vales.
Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Farewell; Parting
Where man's profane and tainting hand
Nature's primeval loveliness has marred,
And some few souls of the high bliss debarred
Which else obey her powerful command;
... mountain piles
That load in grandeur Cambria's emerald vales.
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