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 "title": "Fancy",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems",
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  "year": 1820,
  "venue": "Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)",
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    "text": "Ever let the Fancy roam,",
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   {
    "text": "Pleasure never is at home:",
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    "text": "At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth,",
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    "text": "Like to bubbles when rain pelteth;",
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    "text": "Then let winged Fancy wander",
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   {
    "text": "Through the thought still spread beyond her:",
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   {
    "text": "Open wide the mind’s cage-door,",
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   {
    "text": "She’ll dart forth, and cloudward soar.",
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   {
    "text": "O sweet Fancy! let her loose;",
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   {
    "text": "Summer’s joys are spoilt by use,",
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   {
    "text": "And the enjoying of the Spring",
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   {
    "text": "Fades as does its blossoming;",
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   {
    "text": "Autumn’s red-lipp’d fruitage too,",
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   {
    "text": "Blushing through the mist and dew,",
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   {
    "text": "Cloys with tasting: What do then?",
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   {
    "text": "Sit thee by the ingle, when",
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   {
    "text": "The sear faggot blazes bright,",
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   {
    "text": "Spirit of a winter’s night;",
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   {
    "text": "When the soundless earth is muffled,",
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   {
    "text": "And the caked snow is shuffled",
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   {
    "text": "From the ploughboy’s heavy shoon;",
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   {
    "text": "When the Night doth meet the Noon",
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   {
    "text": "In a dark conspiracy",
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   {
    "text": "To banish Even from her sky.",
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   {
    "text": "Sit thee there, and send abroad,",
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   {
    "text": "With a mind self-overawed,",
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    "text": "Fancy, high-commission’d:⁠—send her!",
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   {
    "text": "She has vassals to attend her:",
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   {
    "text": "She will bring, in spite of frost,",
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   {
    "text": "Beauties that the earth hath lost;",
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   {
    "text": "She will bring thee, all together,",
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   {
    "text": "All delights of summer weather;",
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   {
    "text": "All the buds and bells of May,",
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   {
    "text": "From dewy sward or thorny spray;",
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   {
    "text": "All the heaped Autumn’s wealth,",
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   {
    "text": "With a still, mysterious stealth:",
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   {
    "text": "She will mix these pleasures up",
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   {
    "text": "Like three fit wines in a cup,",
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   {
    "text": "And thou shalt quaff it:⁠—thou shalt hear",
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   {
    "text": "Distant harvest-carols clear;",
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   {
    "text": "Rustle of the reaped corn;",
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   {
    "text": "Sweet birds antheming the morn:",
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   {
    "text": "And, in the same moment⁠—hark!",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis the early April lark,",
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   {
    "text": "Or the rooks, with busy caw,",
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   {
    "text": "Foraging for sticks and straw.",
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   {
    "text": "Thou shalt, at one glance, behold",
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   {
    "text": "The daisy and the marigold;",
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   {
    "text": "White-plumed lilies, and the first",
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   {
    "text": "Hedge-grown primrose that hath burst;",
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   {
    "text": "Shaded hyacinth, alway",
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   {
    "text": "Sapphire queen of the mid-May;",
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   {
    "text": "And every leaf, and every flower",
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   {
    "text": "Pearled with the self-same shower.",
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   {
    "text": "Thou shalt see the field-mouse peep",
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    "text": "Meagre from its celled sleep;",
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   {
    "text": "And the snake all winter-thin",
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   {
    "text": "Cast on sunny bank its skin;",
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    "text": "Freckled nest-eggs thou shalt see",
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    "text": "Hatching in the hawthorn-tree,",
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   {
    "text": "When the hen-bird’s wing doth rest",
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   {
    "text": "Quiet on her mossy nest;",
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   {
    "text": "Then the hurry and alarm",
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   {
    "text": "When the bee-hive casts its swarm;",
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   {
    "text": "Acorns ripe down-pattering",
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   {
    "text": "While the autumn breezes sing.",
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    "text": "Oh, sweet Fancy! let her loose;",
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   {
    "text": "Everything is spoilt by use;",
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   {
    "text": "Where’s the cheek that doth not fade,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Too much gazed at? Where’s the maid",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose lip mature is ever new?",
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   {
    "text": "Wheres the eye, however blue,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Does not weary? Where’s the face",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One would meet in every place?",
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   {
    "text": "Where’s the voice, however soft,",
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   {
    "text": "One would hear so very oft?",
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   {
    "text": "At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth",
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   {
    "text": "Like to bubbles when rain pelteth.",
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   {
    "text": "Let, then, winged Fancy find",
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   {
    "text": "Thee a mistress to thy mind:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dulcet-eyed as Ceres’ daughter",
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   {
    "text": "Ere the God of Torment taught her",
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   {
    "text": "How to frown and how to chide;",
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   {
    "text": "With a waist and with a side",
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   {
    "text": "White as Hebe’s, when her zone",
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   {
    "text": "Slipt its golden clasp, and down",
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   {
    "text": "Fell her kirtle to her feet,",
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   {
    "text": "While she held the goblet sweet,",
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   {
    "text": "And Jove grew languid.⁠—Break the mesh",
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   {
    "text": "Of the Fancy’s silken leash;",
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   {
    "text": "Quickly break her prison-string.",
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   {
    "text": "And such joys as these she’ll bring.⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Let the winged Fancy roam,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Pleasure never is at home.",
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