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22 lines
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1816
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ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER
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by John Keats
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Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
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And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
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Round many western islands have I been
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Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
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Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
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That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
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Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
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Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
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Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
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When a new planet swims into his ken;
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Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
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He star'd at the Pacific- and all his men
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Look'd at each other with a wild surmise-
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Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
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THE END
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