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  1.                                       1816
  2.                             TRANSLATED FROM RONSARD
  3.                                  by John Keats
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  5.         Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies
  6.           For more adornment a full thousand years;
  7.         She took their cream of Beauty's fairest dyes,
  8.           And shap'd and tinted her above all Peers:
  9.         Meanwhile Love kept her dearly with his wings,
  10.           And underneath their shadow fill'd her eyes
  11.         With such a richness that the cloudy Kings
  12.           Of high Olympus utter'd slavish sighs.
  13.         When from the Heavens I saw her first descend
  14.           My heart took fire, and only burning pains
  15.         They were my pleasures- they my Life's sad end;
  16.           Love pour'd her beauty into my warm veins...
  17.                *     *     *     *     *     *
  18.                *     *     *     *     *     *
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  21.                         THE END
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