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What The Thrush Said. Lines From A Letter To John Hamilton Reynolds

By John Keats

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O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind,     Whose eye has seen the snow-clouds hung in mist     And the black elm tops 'mong the freezing stars,     To thee the spring will be a harvest-time.     O thou, whose only book has been the light     Of supreme darkness which thou feddest on     Night after night when Phoebus was away,     To thee the Spring shall be a triple morn.     O fret not after knowledge, I have none,     And yet my song comes native with the warmth.     O fret not after knowledge, I have none,     And yet the Evening listens. He who saddens     At thought of idleness cannot be idle,     And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

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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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