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You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
Judge-Rapporteur
Physician
Poet
Sensation
Sensations
Present
Though
Moment
Moments
Forgetful
Dissolving
Absorb

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