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Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We knew her woof, her texture: she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule of line. Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine—unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made. The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.

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A response to Newton, over a century after his theory was proposed in Optiks (1714) | John Keats, [http://books.google.com/books?id=B748AAAAYAAJ Lamia] (1820) Part II, 229-238

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