Extract from Poetical Essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Millions to fight compell’d, to fight or die
In mangled heaps on War’s red altar lie . . .
When the legal murders swell the lists of pride;
When glory’s views the titled idiot guide
Lost Shelley poem found after 200 years
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(Percy Bysshe Shelley)
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