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O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!

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
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Sea
Comfortable
Magic
Sleep
Hush
Mind
Troubled
Smooth
Till
Bird

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