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My dearest lady, |
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I am now at a very pleasant cottage window |
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looking onto a beautiful hilly country, |
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with a view of the sea. |
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The morning is very fine. |
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I do not know how elastic my spirit might be, |
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what pleasure I might have in living here |
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if the remembrance of you did not weigh so upon me. |
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Ask yourself, my love, whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, |
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so destroyed my freedom. |
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For myself, I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form. |
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I want a brighter word than bright,a fairer word than fair. |
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I almost wish we were butterflies |
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and lived but three summer days. |
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Three such days with you I could fill with more delight |
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than 50 common years could ever contain. |
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When you can confess this in a letter |
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you must write immediately |
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and do all you can to console me in it, |
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make it rich as a draft of poppies |
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to intoxicate me, |
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write the softest words and kiss them |
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That I may at least touch my lips where yours have been |
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“My dear Mr. Keats, thank you for your letter. |
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Lately I have felt so nervous and ill that I had to stay five days in bed. |
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Have received your letter, |
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I am up again, walking our paths on the heath. |
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I’ve begun a butterfly farm in my bedroom in honor of us. |
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Sammy and Toots are catching them for me |
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Samuel has made a science of it |
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and is collecting both caterpillars and chrysalises |
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so we may have them fluttering about us a week or more.” |
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“I have two luxurious to brood over in my walks, |
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your loveliness and the hour of my death. |
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O that O could have possession of them both in the same minute. |
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I never knew before what such a love as you have made me feel was. |
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I did not believe in it. |
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But if you will fully love me, |
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though there may be some fire, |
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it will not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with pleasures.” |
