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FRAGMENT (3) by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

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First Line: WHEN SOFT WINDS AND SUNNY SKIES
Last Line: CLOUDS AND WHIRLWINDS WATCH THEIR PREY.

WHEN soft winds and sunny skies
With the green earth harmonize,
And the young and dewy dawn,
Bold as an unhunted fawn,
Up the windless heaven is gone, --
Laugh -- for, ambushed in the day,
Clouds and whirlwinds watch their prey.



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