The Mermaid Tavern
John Keats
1795 to 1821
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Sipping beverage divine,
I have heard that on a day
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Souls of Poets dead and gone,
Sup and bowse from horn and can.
An astrologer's old quill
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Or are fruits of Paradise
To a sheepskin gave the story,
What Elysium have ye known,
The Mermaid in the Zodiac.
Underneath a new old-sign
Said he saw you in your glory,
Have ye tippled drink more fine
Of venison? O generous food!
Nobody knew whither, till
Than mine host's Canary wine?
Would, with his maid Marian,
Souls of Poets dead and gone,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Sweeter than those dainty pies
Mine host's sign-board flew away,
Drest as though bold Robin Hood
Happy field or mossy cavern,
And pledging with contented smack
What Elysium have ye known,
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