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Keats's On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again.(John Keats)(Critical essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20070101
Author:Dilworth, Thomas; Keating, Betsy

 
    O GOLDEN tongued Romance, with serene lute! 
      Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away! 
      Leave melodizing on this wintry day, 
    Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute: 
    Adieu! for once again the fierce dispute, 
      Betwixt damnation and impassion'd clay 
      Must I burn through; once more humbly assay 
    The bitter-sweet of this Shakspearean fruit: 
    Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion, 
      Begetters of our deep eternal theme! 
    When through the old oak forest I am gone, 
      Let me not wander in a barren dream, 
    But when I am consumed in the fire,  ...

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