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Fragment: Welcome Joy, And Welcome Sorrow

By John Keats

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"Under the flag     Of each his faction, they to battle bring     Their embryo atoms."     - Milton.     Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow,     Lethe's weed and Hermes' feather;     Come to-day, and come to-morrow,     I do love you both together!     I love to mark sad faces in fair weather;     And hear a merry laugh amid the thunder;     Fair and foul I love together.     Meadows sweet where flames are under,     And a giggle at a wonder;     Visage sage at pantomine;     Funeral, and steeple-chime;     Infant playing with a skull;     Morning fair, and shipwreck'd hull;     Nightshade with the woodbine kissing;     Serpents in red roses hissing;     Cleopatra regal-dress'd     With the aspic at her breast;     Dancing music, music sad,     Both together, sane and mad;     Muses bright and muses pale;     Sombre Saturn, Momus hale;     Laugh and sigh, and laugh again;     Oh the sweetness of the pain!     Muses bright, and muses pale,     Bare your faces of the veil;     Let me see; and let me write     Of the day, and of the night     Both together: let me slake     All my thirst for sweet heart-ache!     Let my bower be of yew,     Interwreath'd with myrtles new;     Pines and lime-trees full in bloom,     And my couch a low grass-tomb.

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John Keats (1795–1821) was an English Romantic poet whose odes—"Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn"—are among the most celebrated in the language. Despite dying of tuberculosis at 25, he produced work of extraordinary sensory richness and philosophical depth.

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