When I came across your name John Keats
I felt I had come across the very streets
of my birthright, for we were born in Hampstead
and I was be-stirred by your verse
like you to George Chapman, I did traverse
the Ages, from the Internet to the Sonnet
I apprended in the tight form a geometry
of wit and sunlight, which had replaced
the bright babble and baubles of my comics
yet only at this instance do I apprehend
truly the beauty of your cosmos and geography
which attracts my senses and my intellect
a pity I cannot tell and I cannot recollect
a teacher who encouraged in me a taste
for this armchair and yet perilous travel
into the lands of the Mind and Feeling
fed by rivers of Greek and Roman Mythology
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