Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. ✨ Joh…

John Keats
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Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. ✨ John Keats (2010). Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters, p.224, Random House
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