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- 1816
- DEDICATION [OF POEMS, 1817] TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ.
- by John Keats
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- Glory and loveliness have pass'd away;
- For if we wander out in early morn,
- No wreathed incense do we see upborne
- Into the east, to meet the smiling day:
- No crowd of nymphs soft voic'd and young, and gay,
- In woven baskets bringing ears of corn,
- Roses, and pinks, and violets, to adorn
- The shrine of Flora in her early May.
- But there are left delights as high as these,
- And I shall ever bless my destiny,
- That in a time, when under pleasant trees
- Pan is no longer sought, I feel a free,
- A leafy luxury, seeing I could please
- With these poor offerings, a man like thee.
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- THE END
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