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For after the rain, when with never a stain

The pavilion of heaven is bare,

And the winds and sunbeams, with their convex gleams,

Build up the blue dome of air,

I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,

And out of the caverns of rain,

Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

S

FAERY SONG

JOHN KEATS

HED no tear! oh shed no tear!

The flowers will bloom another year.

Weep no more! oh weep no more!

Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
Dry your eyes! oh dry your eyes!
For I was taught in Paradise

To ease my breast of melodies

Shed no tear.

Overhead! look overhead!

'Mong the blossoms white and red-
Look up, look up. I flutter now
On this flush pomegranate bough.
See me! 'tis this silvery bill
Ever cures the good man's ill.

Shed no tear! oh shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Adieu, adieu, — I fly, adieu!

I vanish in the heaven's blue

Adieu! adieu!

MEG MERRILIES

JOHN KEATS

LD Meg she was a gypsy,
And lived upon the moors:

Her bed it was the brown heath turf,
And her house was out of doors.

Her apples were swart blackberries,

Her currants, pods o' broom;

Her wine was dew of the wild white rose,

Her book a churchyard tomb.

Her brothers were the craggy hills,

Her sisters larchen trees;

Alone with her great family

She lived as she did please.

No breakfast had she many a morn,

No dinner many a noon,

And, 'stead of supper, she would stare

Full hard against the moon.

But every morn, of woodbine fresh

She made her garlanding,

And, every night, the dark glen yew
She wove, and she would sing.

And with her fingers, old and brown,
She plaited mats of rushes,

And gave them to the cottagers

She met among the bushes.

Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,

And tall as Amazon;

An old red blanket cloak she wore,

A ship-hat had she on :

God rest her aged bones somewhere!
She died full long agone!

SONG

JOHN KEATS

HAD a dove, and the sweet dove died;
And I have thought it died of grieving :
Oh, what could it grieve for? its feet were tied
With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.
Sweet little red feet! why should you die—
Why would you leave me, sweet bird! why?
You lived alone in the forest tree;

Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me?
I kiss'd you oft and gave you white peas;
Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees?

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