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 "id": "john-keats/a-prophecy",
 "title": "A Prophecy",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": "To George Keats in America",
 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1848,
  "venue": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "’Tis the witching time of night,",
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   {
    "text": "Orbed is the moon and bright,",
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   {
    "text": "And the Stars they glisten, glisten,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Seeming with bright eyes to listen.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For what listen they?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For a song and for a charm,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "See they glisten in alarm,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the Moon is waxing warm",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To hear what I shall say.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Moon! keep wide thy golden ears⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hearken, Stars! and hearken, Spheres!⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hearken, thou eternal Sky!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I sing an infant’s Lullaby,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O pretty lullaby!",
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   {
    "text": "Listen, listen, listen, listen,",
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   {
    "text": "Glisten, glisten, glisten, glisten,",
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   {
    "text": "And hear my Lullaby!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though the Rushes, that will make",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Its cradle, still are in the lake⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though the linen that will be",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Its swathe, is on the cotton tree⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though the woollen that will keep",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It warm, is on the silly sheep⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Listen, Starlight, listen, listen,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Glisten, glisten, glisten, glisten,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And hear my lullaby!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Child, I see thee! Child, I’ve found thee",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Midst of the quiet all around thee!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Child, I see thee! Child, I spy thee!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And thy mother sweet is nigh thee!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Child, I know thee! Child no more,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But a Poet evermore!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "See, see, the Lyre, the Lyre,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In a flame of fire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upon the little cradle’s top",
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   {
    "text": "Flaring, flaring, flaring,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Past the eyesight’s bearing.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Awake it from its sleep,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And see if it can keep",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Its eyes upon the blaze⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Amaze, amaze!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It stares, it stares, it stares,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It dares what no one dares!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It lifts its little hand into the flame",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unharm’d, and on the strings",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Paddles a little tune, and sings,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With dumb endeavour sweetly⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bard art thou completely!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Little child",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’ th’ western wild,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bard art thou completely!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sweetly with dumb endeavour.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A poet now or never,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Little child",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’ th’ western wild,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A Poet now or never!",
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