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Cancelled Passage of Mont Blanc

[Published by Garnett, “Relics of Shelley”, 1862.]

There is a voice, not understood by all,
Sent from these desert-caves. It is the roar
Of the rent ice-cliff which the sunbeams call,
Plunging into the vale—it is the blast
Descending on the pines—the torrents pour… _5