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SONG (2) by JOHN KEATS

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First Line: SPIRIT HERE THAT REIGNEST
Last Line: JUST FRESH FROM THE BANQUET OF COMUS.

[Written on a blank page in Beaumont and Fletcher's Works,
between "Cupid's Revenge" and "The Two Noble Kinsmen."]

I.

SPIRIT here that reignest!
Spirit here that painest!
Spirit here that burnest!
Spirit here that mournest!
Spirit, I bow
My forehead low,
Enshaded with thy pinions.
Spirit, I look
All passion-struck
Into thy pale dominions.

II.

Spirit here that laughest!
Spirit here that quaffest!
Spirit here that dancest!
Noble soul that prancest!
Spirit, with thee
I join in the glee
A-nudging the elbow of Momus.
Spirit, I flush
With a Bacchanal blush
Just fresh from the Banquet of Comus.



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