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Ay, in the very temple of Delight
Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine,

John Keats

John Keats (1795–1821), British poet. Ode on Melancholy (l. 25–26). . .

The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.

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