“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Actually the opening lines of Keats's "Fancy" (1820).
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“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”
"Fancy", l. 1
Poems (1820)
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Pleasure never is at home." by John Keats?
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