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Poems Of John Keats: Last Sonnet

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Keats, John

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Last Sonnet

Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art: - Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite,

The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors: -

No - yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest;

Still, still to hear her tender - taken breath, And so ...

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