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- 1816
- ON VISITING THE TOMB OF BURNS
- by John Keats
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- The town, the churchyard, and the setting sun,
- The clouds, the trees, the rounded hills all seem,
- Though beautiful, cold- strange- as in a dream
- I dreamed long ago, now new begun.
- The short-liv'd, paly summer is but won
- From winter's ague for one hour's gleam;
- Through sapphire warm their stars do never beam:
- All is cold Beauty; pain is never done.
- For who has mind to relish, Minos-wise,
- The real of Beauty, free from that dead hue
- Sickly imagination and sick pride
- Cast wan upon it? Burns! with honour due
- I oft have honour'd thee. Great shadow, hide
- Thy face; I sin against thy native skies.
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- THE END
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