FRAGMENT:‘ WAKE THE SERPENT NOT’.

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wake the serpent not — lest he

Should not know the way to go,—

Let him crawl which yet lies sleeping

Through the deep grass of the meadow!

Not a bee shall hear him creeping,

Not a may-fly shall awaken

From its cradling blue-bell shaken,

Not the starlight as he's sliding

Through the grass with silent gliding.