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Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.

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Ode to a Nightingale, stanza 3 (1819); Exact wording and attribution checked. Complete stanza imagining escape from the human world of aging, illness and transient beauty.
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Ode to a Nightingale, stanza 3 (1819)
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  • gutenberg.orgChecked using manual, 21 October 2026Ode to a Nightingale, stanza 3 (1819); Exact wording and attribution checked. Complete stanza imagining escape from the human world of aging, illness and transient beauty.

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