Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from … - John Keats

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Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?

John Keats

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John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement.

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was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music — do I wake or sleep?

Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?

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