Where's The Poet?

John Keats

Where's the Poet? show him! show him,
Muses nine! that I may know him.
'Tis the man who with a man
    Is an equal, be he King, 
Or poorest of the beggar-clan
    Or any other wonderous thing 
A man may be 'twixt ape and Plato;
    'Tis the man who with a bird, 
Wren or Eagle, finds his way to
    All its instincts; he hath heard 
The Lion's roaring, and can tell
    What his horny throat expresseth, 
And to him the Tiger's yell
    Come articulate and presseth 
Or his ear like mother-tongue.

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