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Song

by John Keats

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Spirit Here That Reignest!
Written on a blank page in Beaumont and Fletcher’s works, between “ Cupid’s Revenge ” and “ The Two Noble Kinsmen ”
Spirit here that reignest! Spirit here that painest! Spirit here that burnest! Spirit here that mournest! Spirit, I bow My forehead low, Enshaded with thy pinions. Spirit, I look All passion-struck Into thy pale dominions.
Spirit here that laughest! Spirit here that quaffest! Spirit here that dancest! Noble soul that prancest! Spirit, with thee I join in the glee A-nudging the elbow of Momus. Spirit, I flush With a Bacchanal blush Just fresh from the Banquet of Comus.

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