JOHN KEATS

How to frown and how to chide ;

With a waist and with a side

White as Hebe's, when her zone

Slipt its golden clasp, and down

Fell her kirtle to her feet,

While she held the goblet sweet,

And Jove grew languid. Break the mesh

Of the Fancy's silken leash;

Quickly break her prison-string,

And such joys as these she'll bring.

Let the winged Fancy roam.

Pleasure never is at home.

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TN a drear-nighted December,

Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember

Their green felicity : The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them ; Nor frozen thawings glue them

From budding at the prime.

In a drear-nighted December, Too. happy, happy brook,

Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look ;

But with a sweet forgetting,

They stay their crystal fretting,

Never, never petting

About the frozen time.

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