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 Lines on the Mermaid Tavern

By John Keats

Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?

Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine? Or are fruits of Paradise
Sweeter than those dainty pies Of venison? O generous food!
Drest as though bold Robin Hood Would, with his maid Marian, Sup and bowse from horn and can.

I have heard that on a day Mine host's sign-board flew away,Nobody knew whither, till
An astrologer's old quill

To a sheepskin gave the story, Said he saw you in your glory, Underneath a new old sign
Sipping beverage divine,

And pledging with contented smack The Mermaid in the Zodiac.

Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern.

cornelia