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- 1816
- WHEN I HAVE FEARS THAT I MAY CEASE TO BE
- by John Keats
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- When I have fears that I may cease to be
- Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
- Before high-piled books in charact'ry
- Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;
- When I behold upon the night's starr'd face
- Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
- And think that I may never live to trace
- Their shadows with the magic hand of chance;
- And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
- That I shall never look upon thee more,
- Never have relish in the faery power
- Of unreflecting love;- then on the shore
- Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
- Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
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- THE END
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