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Ode on a Grecian Urn is a poem by John Keats first published in January 1820. It is thought not to be based on any specific Greek vase.
The poem begins:
Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
and ends with the famous lines:
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
One of the English language's more famous poems, Ode on a Grecian Urn has frequently been the subject of parody. Desmond Skirrow 'summarized' it thus:
- "Gods chase/Round vase./What say?/What play?/Don't know./Nice, though."
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