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- 1816
- ADDRESSED TO HAYDON
- by John Keats
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- Great spirits now on earth are sojourning;
- He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake,
- Who on Helvellyn's summit, wide awake,
- Catches his freshness from Archangel's wing:
- He of the rose, the violet, the spring,
- The social smile, the chain for Freedom's sake:
- And lo!- whose stedfastness would never take
- A meaner sound than Raphael's whispering.
- And other spirits there are standing apart
- Upon the forehead of the age to come;
- These, these will give the world another heart,
- And other pulses. Hear ye not the hum
- Of mighty workings?-
- Listen awhile ye nations, and be dumb.
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- THE END
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