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John Keats - Sonnet. Written On A Blank Page In Shakespeare`s Poems, Facing `A Lover`s Complaint`
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Bright star, would I were stedfast 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 priest-like 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 stedfast, 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 live ever -- or else swoon to death.
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