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- 1816
- ON SITTING DOWN TO READ KING LEAR ONCE AGAIN
- by John Keats
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- O golden tongued Romance, with serene lute!
- Fair plumed Syren, Queen of far-away!
- Leave melodizing on this wintry day,
- Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute:
- Adieu! for once again the fierce dispute
- Betwixt damnation and impassion'd clay
- Must I burn through; once more humbly assay
- The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit.
- Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion,
- Begetters of our deep eternal theme!
- When through the old oak Forest I am gone,
- Let me not wander in a barren dream,
- But when I am consumed in the fire,
- Give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my desire.
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- THE END
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