"O Attic shape! fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!"
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John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (wr. 1819; pub. 1820)
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