Ripe was the drowsy hour;
The blissful cloud of summer-indolence
Benumbed my eyes; my pulse grew less and less;
Pain had no sting, and pleasure's wreath no flowers:
O, why did ye not melt, and leave my sense
Unhaunted quite of all but - nothingness?
John Keats in Ode on Indolence
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