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"Happy is England"

Happy is England! I could be content   To see no other verdure than its own;   To feel no other breezes than are blown   Through its tall woods with high romances blent:   Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment   For skies Italian, and an inward groan   To sit upon an Alp as on a throne,   And half forget what world or worldling meant.   Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters;   Enough their simple loveliness for me,   Enough their whitest arms in silence clinging:   Yet do I often warmly burn to see   Beauties of deeper glance, and hear their singing,   And float with them about the summer waters.   -- by John Keats