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Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.

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
Wells
Unheard
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Would
Vain
Grasshoppers
Sun
Crocodile
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Crocodiles
Words
Leaps
Lost
Swords
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