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FOR A COPY OF KEATS'S POEMS, by                    
First Line: You taught my eager heart to understand
Last Line: All his, remembering this gift from you.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


You taught my eager heart to understand
The joyousness of love, and, opening this book,
Bade me, as from a casement wide, to look
Through it upon the beauty of the land
That sun and bloom make bright; and with your hand
In mine the friends of Sorrow I forsook
To listen to the lyric of the brook
Whose songs are writ in water and in sand.

There with the lilies white we used to dream
The starlit hours of summer evening through,
With Keats clear singing and the dulcet stream
Flooding our hearts with happiness anew, --
A mingled music that must always seem
All his, remembering this gift from you.





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