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To Italy

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

As the sunrise to the night,
As the north wind to the clouds,
As the earthquake's fiery flight,
Ruining mountain solitudes,
Everlasting Italy,
Be those hopes and fears on thee.




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