To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unr…

John Keats
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To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death. ✨ John Keats (1859). The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life, p.438
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