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— John Milton

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15

Afford a present to the Infant God?

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome him to this his new abode,

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HERE LIBS ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IX WATER.

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John Keats·1795–1821·Romanticism
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e died on the 27th of February, so quiet thatSevern thought he still slept; his last words were** Thank God it has come." Keats was buned in the Protestant cemetery atRome, one of the most beautiful spots on which theeye and heart of man can rest It is a grassy slope,amid verdurous ruins of the Honorian walls of thediminished city, surmounted by the pyramidal tombwhich Petrai*ch ascribed to Remus, but which anti-quarian research has attributed to the humbler nameof Caius Cestius, a Tribune of the people, only re-membered by his sepulchre. In one of these mentalvoyages into the past, which precede death, Keatshad told Severn that he thought *' the intensestpleasure he had received in life was in watching tho * Miss Keats shortly afterwards married S«fior LlaAos. theauthor of "Don Esteban," "Sandoval the Freemason," andother works of coiisiderable ability.
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