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  1.                                       1816
  2.                                     STANZAS
  3.                          ("IN DREAR-NIGHTED DECEMBER")
  4.                                  by John Keats
  5. STANZAS
  6.  
  7.                       I.
  8.  
  9.         In drear-nighted December,
  10.             Too happy, happy tree,
  11.         Thy branches ne'er remember
  12.             Their green felicity:
  13.           The north cannot undo them,
  14.           With a sleety whistle through them;
  15.           Nor frozen thawings glue them
  16.               From budding at the prime.
  17.  
  18.                      II.
  19.  
  20.         In drear-nighted December,
  21.             Too happy, happy brook,
  22.         Thy bubblings ne'er remember
  23.             Apollo's summer look;
  24.           But with a sweet forgetting,
  25.           They stay their crystal fretting,
  26.           Never, never petting
  27.               About the frozen time.
  28.  
  29.                     III.
  30.  
  31.         Ah! would 'twere so with many
  32.             A gentle girl and boy!
  33.         But were there ever any
  34.             Writh'd not of passed joy?
  35.           The feel of not to feel it,
  36.           When there is none to heal it,
  37.           Nor numbed sense to steel it,
  38.               Was never said in rhyme.
  39.  
  40.  
  41.                         THE END
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