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  1. An excerpt from "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

    by John Keats

     

    Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness!
    Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,
    Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
    A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
    What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape
    Of deities or mortals, or of both,
    In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
    What men or gods are these? what maidens loath?
    What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
    What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

    Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
    Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
    Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
    Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
    Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
    Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
    Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
    Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve;
    She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
    Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

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  2. ON A DREAM

    By John Keats

     

    As Hermes once took to his feathers light,

    When lulled Argus, baffled, swoon’d and slept,

    So on a Delphic reed, my idle spright

    So play’d, so charm’d, so conquer’d, so bereft

    The dragon-world of all its hundred eyes;

    And seeing it asleep, so fled away,

    Not to pure Ida with its snow-cold skies,

    Nor unto Tempe where Jove griev’d that day;

    But to that second circle of sad Hell,

    Where in the gust, the whirlwind, and the flaw

    Of rain and hail-stones, lovers need not tell

    Their sorrows—pale were the sweet lips I saw,

    Pale were the lips I kiss’d, and fair the form

    I floated with, about that melancholy storm.

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