# Quote — John Keats, The Eve of St Agnes

> And they are gone: ay, ages long ago
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> These lovers fled away into the storm.

- Author: [John Keats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats.md)
- Book: [The Eve of St Agnes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats/the-eve-of-st-agnes.md)
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> She hurried at his words, beset with fears,
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> For there were sleeping dragons all around,
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> At glaring watch, perhaps, with ready spears —
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> Down the wide stairs a darkling way they found. —
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> In all the house was heard no human sound.
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> A chain-droop'd lamp was flickering by each door;
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> The arras, rich with horseman, hawk, and hound,
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> Flutter'd in the besieging wind's uproar;
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> And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor.

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