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Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
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Physician
Poet
Coming
Fading
Full
Flies
Child
Cover
Dewy
May
Leaves
Musk
Children
Fast
Violets
Rose
Eldest
Wine
Haunt
Summer
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