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- 1816
- THE POET
- A FRAGMENT
- by John Keats
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- Where's the Poet? show him! show him,
- Muses nine! that I may know him!
- 'Tis the man who with a man
- Is an equal, be he King
- Or poorest of the beggar-clan,
- Or any other wondrous thing
- A man may be 'twixt ape and Plato;
- 'Tis the man who with a bird,
- Wren or eagle, finds his way to
- All its instincts; he hath heard
- The lion's roaring, and can tell
- What his horny throat expresseth,
- And to him the tiger's yell
- Comes articulate and presseth
- On his ear like mother-tongue...
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- THE END
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