O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung       #25
                                 By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear,
                               And pardon that thy secrets should be sung
                                 Even into thine own soft-conched ear:
                               Surely I dreamt to-day, or did I see
                                 The winged Psyche with awaken'd eyes?
                               I wander'd in a forest thoughtlessly,
                                 And, on the sudden, fainting with surprise,
                               Saw two fair creatures, couched side by side
                                 In deepest grass, beneath the whisp'ring roof
                                 Of leaves and trembled blossoms, where there ran
                                    A brooklet, scarce espied:

                               Mid hush'd, cool-rooted flowers, fragrant-eyed,
                                   Blue, silver-white, and budded Tyrian,
                               They lay calm-breathing, on the bedded grass;
                                   Their arms embraced, and their pinions too;
                                   Their lips touch'd not, but had not bade adieu,
                               As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber,
                               And ready still past kisses to outnumber
                                   At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:
                                       The winged boy I knew;
                               But who wast thou, O happy, happy dove?
                                       His Psyche true!
                                                    --John Keats                           CLICK FOR ITEM #26
 

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