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