KEATS

KEATS

A YOUNG-EYED seer, amid the leafy waysOf Latmos' groves, sacred to mighty Pan,Afar from all the busy marts of man,Content to seek the beautiful, he strays;With mild eyes lifted in their starry gazeOf ravishment divine, a priest, he standsBefore the altar builded by his hands,And on his pipe, with pallid lip, he plays.This night, O god-like singer, have I kneltBefore that altar listening to thy strain,Till off my soul mortality did melt,Dissolvëd from all weariness of pain;And at thy magic melody I feltAll life were mine, could I such rapture drain.

A YOUNG-EYED seer, amid the leafy waysOf Latmos' groves, sacred to mighty Pan,Afar from all the busy marts of man,Content to seek the beautiful, he strays;With mild eyes lifted in their starry gazeOf ravishment divine, a priest, he standsBefore the altar builded by his hands,And on his pipe, with pallid lip, he plays.This night, O god-like singer, have I kneltBefore that altar listening to thy strain,Till off my soul mortality did melt,Dissolvëd from all weariness of pain;And at thy magic melody I feltAll life were mine, could I such rapture drain.

A YOUNG-EYED seer, amid the leafy waysOf Latmos' groves, sacred to mighty Pan,Afar from all the busy marts of man,Content to seek the beautiful, he strays;With mild eyes lifted in their starry gazeOf ravishment divine, a priest, he standsBefore the altar builded by his hands,And on his pipe, with pallid lip, he plays.

A YOUNG-EYED seer, amid the leafy ways

Of Latmos' groves, sacred to mighty Pan,

Afar from all the busy marts of man,

Content to seek the beautiful, he strays;

With mild eyes lifted in their starry gaze

Of ravishment divine, a priest, he stands

Before the altar builded by his hands,

And on his pipe, with pallid lip, he plays.

This night, O god-like singer, have I kneltBefore that altar listening to thy strain,Till off my soul mortality did melt,Dissolvëd from all weariness of pain;And at thy magic melody I feltAll life were mine, could I such rapture drain.

This night, O god-like singer, have I knelt

Before that altar listening to thy strain,

Till off my soul mortality did melt,

Dissolvëd from all weariness of pain;

And at thy magic melody I felt

All life were mine, could I such rapture drain.


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