With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822 . rice upon his life, and there was setA penalty of blood on all who shared So much of water with him as might wetHis lips, which speech divided not — he wentAlone, as you may guess, to banishment. XIII Amid the mountains, like a hunted beast,He hid himself, and hunger, toil, and cold. Month after month endured; it was a feast Wheneer he found those globes of deep-red gold Which in the woods the strawberry-tree dotli bear. Suspended in their emera
With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822 . rice upon his life, and there was setA penalty of blood on all who shared So much of water with him as might wetHis lips, which speech divided not — he wentAlone, as you may guess, to banishment. XIII Amid the mountains, like a hunted beast,He hid himself, and hunger, toil, and cold. Month after month endured; it was a feast Wheneer he found those globes of deep-red gold Which in the woods the strawberry-tree dotli bear. Suspended in their emerald atmosphere. XIVAnd in the roofless huts of vast morasses. Deserted by the fever-stricken overgrown with reeds and long rank grasses, And hillocks heaped of moss-inwoven where the huge and speckled aloe made,Rooted in stones, a broad and pointed shade, XV He housed himself. There is a point of strandNear Yados tower and town ; and on one side The treacherous marsh divides it from the by pine and ilex forests wide. And on the other creeps eternally. Through muddy weeds, the shallow sullen sea.[ 32 ] ;? o 2 ^. THE YEAR 1818 XVIHere the eartli^s breath is pestilence, and few But things whose nature is at war with bfe —Snakes and ill worms — endure its mortal dew. The trophies of the climes victorious strife —White bones, and locks of dun and yellow hair,And ringed horns which buffaloes did wear — xvn And at the utmost point . . stood there . The relics of a weed-inwoven with broad flags. An outlawed murderer Had lived seven days there : the pursuit was hotWhen he was cold. The birds that were his graveFell dead upon their feast iu Vado^s wave. xvni There must have lived within Marenghi^s heartThat fire, more warm and bright than life or hope, (Which to the martyr makes his dungeon . .More joyous than the heavens majestic cope To his oppressor), warring with decay, — Or he could neer have lived years, day by day. ? XIX Nor
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