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 "title": "To Haydon",
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  "year": 1817,
  "venue": "The Examiner (9 March 1817)",
  "note": "The sonnet beginning “Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speak”, printed with On Seeing the Elgin Marbles. Reprinted in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848). The claim is the headnote to this poem in The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats, Cambridge Edition (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1899), which states that this sonnet and the preceding one were printed in The Examiner of 9 March 1817. No copy of that number has been read here.",
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    "text": "Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speak",
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   {
    "text": "Definitively of these mighty things;",
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    "text": "Forgive me, that I have not Eagle’s wings⁠—",
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    "text": "That what I want I know not where to seek:",
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   {
    "text": "And think that I would not be over meek,",
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   {
    "text": "In rolling out upfollow’d thunderings,",
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   {
    "text": "Even to the steep of Heliconian springs,",
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   {
    "text": "Were I of ample strength for such a freak⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Think too, that all those numbers should be thine;",
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   {
    "text": "Whose else? In this who touch thy vesture’s hem?",
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   {
    "text": "For when men star’d at what was most divine",
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   {
    "text": "With browless idiotism⁠—o’erwise phlegm⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Thou hadst beheld the Hesperean shine",
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    "text": "Of their star in the East, and gone to worship them.",
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