I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days—with a rose and a myrtle tree.

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From a letter to his sister Fanny Keats, a whimsical and melancholic wish for a brief, beautiful, and unburdened existence.

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1819

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69383/selections-from-keatss-letters

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