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The Revolt of Islam

A Poem in Twelve Cantos

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

		Hosais de broton aglaiais haptomestha 
		   perainei pros eschaton
		ploon nausi d' oute pelos ion an heurois
		es Hyperboreon agona thaumatan hodon.
					Pind[ar] Pyth[ian Ode] X
[originally printed (in November 1817) as Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century -- then suppressed.]