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1816
WHY DID I LAUGH TO-NIGHT? NO VOICE WILL TELL
by John Keats
Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell:No God, no Demon of severe response,
Deigns to reply from Heaven or from Hell.Then to my human heart I turn at once.
Heart! Thou and I are here sad and alone;I say, why did I laugh! O mortal pain!
O Darkness! Darkness! ever must I moan,To question Heaven and Hell and Heart in vain.
Why did I laugh? I know this Being's lease,My fancy to its utmost blisses spreads;
Yet would I on this very midnight cease,And the world's gaudy ensigns see in shreds.
Verse, Fame, and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser- Death is Life's high meed.
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