Canto V, stanza 10.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
“But were there ever any
Writh'd not of passed joy?
The feel of not to feel it,
When there is none to heal it,
Nor numbed sense to steel it,
Was never said in rhyme.”
"Stanzas", st. 3
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