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ON KEATS by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

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First Line: A GARDEN IN A GARDEN: A GREEN SPOT
Last Line: SHALL BE A FOUNTAIN OF LOVE, VERILY.
Subject(s): KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821); POETRY & POETS;

A garden in a garden: a green spot
Where all is green: most fitting slumber-place
For the strong man grown weary of a race
Soon over. Unto him a goodly lot
Hath fallen in fertile ground; there thorns are not,
But his own daisies: silence, full of grace,
Surely hath shed a quiet on his face:
His earth is but sweet leaves that fall and rot.
What was his record of himself, ere he
Went from us? @3Here lies one whose name was writ
In water:@1 while the chilly shadows flit
Of sweet Saint Agnes' Eve; while basil springs,
His name, in every humble heart that sings,
Shall be a fountain of love, verily.



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