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SPENSERIAN STANZA by JOHN KEATS

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First Line: IN AFTER-TIME, A SAGE OF MICKLE LORE
Last Line: THE ONE HE STRUCK STONE-BLIND, THE OTHER'S EYES WOX DIM.

In after-time, a sage of mickle lore
Yclep'd Typographus, the Giant took,
And did refit his limbs as heretofore,
And made him read in many a learned book,
And into many a lively legend look;
Thereby in goodly themes so training him,
That all his brutishness he quite forsook,
When, meeting Artegall and Talus grim,
The one he struck stone-blind, the other's eyes wox dim.



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