Where's the Poet? show him! show him,
Muses nine! that I may know him.'Tis the man who with a
Is an equal, be he King,
Or poorest of the
Or any other wonderous thingA man may be 'twixt ape and Plato;'Tis the man who with a bird,
Wren or Eagle, finds his way
All its instincts; he hath
The Lion's roaring, and can
What his horny throat expresseth,
And to him the Tiger's
Come articulate and
Or his ear like mother-tongue.'This is one of a group of undated fragments given at the end of Volume I of the Life,
Letters &c. (1848).' ~ Poetical Works of John Keats, ed.
H.
Buxton Forman,
Crowell publ. 1895.
