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52 lines
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1816
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ODE
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("BARDS OF PASSION AND OF MIRTH")
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by John Keats
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ODE
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Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
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Ye have left your souls on earth!
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Have ye souls in heaven too,
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Double-lived in regions new?
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Yes, and those of heaven commune
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With the spheres of sun and moon;
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With the noise of fountains wond'rous,
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And the parle of voices thund'rous;
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With the whisper of heaven's trees
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And one another, in soft ease
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Seated on Elysian lawns
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Brows'd by none but Dian's fawns;
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Underneath large blue-bells tented,
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Where the daisies are rose-scented,
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And the rose herself has got
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Perfume which on earth is not;
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Where the nightingale doth sing
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Not a senseless, tranced thing,
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But divine melodious truth;
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Philosophic numbers smooth;
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Tales and golden histories
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Of heaven and its mysteries.
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Thus ye live on high, and then
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On the earth ye live again;
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And the souls ye left behind you
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Teach us, here, the way to find you,
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Where your other souls are joying,
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Never slumber'd, never cloying.
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Here, your earth-born souls still speak
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To mortals, of their little week;
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Of their sorrows and delights;
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Of their passions and their spites;
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Of their glory and their shame;
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What doth strengthen and what maim.
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Thus ye teach us, every day,
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Wisdom, though fled far away.
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Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
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Ye have left your souls on earth!
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Ye have souls in heaven too,
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Double-lived in regions new!
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THE END
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