22 lines
878 B
Plaintext
22 lines
878 B
Plaintext
1816
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TO HOMER
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by John Keats
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Standing aloof in giant ignorance,
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Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,
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As one who sits ashore and longs perchance
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To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.
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So thou wast blind!- but then the veil was rent,
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For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live,
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And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent,
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And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;
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Aye, on the shores of darkness there is light,
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And precipices show untrodden green;
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There is a budding morrow in midnight;
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There is a triple sight in blindness keen;
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Such seeing hadst thou as it once befel
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To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell.
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THE END
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