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Where's the Poet? 
John Keats 
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820, 25)
composed 1816 (21).

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 wondrous 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 
Comes articulate and presseth 
On his ear like mother-tongue.