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