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First Line: Well might john keats have wandered up and down
Last Line: To think too closely is to banish him.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets


WELL might John Keats have wandered up and down
This stubble field, and paused just here to view
The angry purple of the distant town,
The ragged hedge, and corn-sheaf's tawny hue.
Sometimes I think he does, and almost see
The stooping form, the dark tumultuous eyes,
The full hot lips that ever seem to be
Parted in some strange passionate surmise.
Then from the past the wizard-breeze wafts faint
Some wistful echo of his troublous day,
And my touch'd heart complains with his complaint,
"Why should our young Endymion fade away?"
Alas! the gathering mists whirl fast and dim,
To think too closely is to banish him.





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