Bright star! would I were stedfast as thou art- E-book

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                 BRIGHT STAR WOULD I WERE STEDFAST AS THOU ART-

                                 by John Keats








Electronically Enhanced Text (c) Copyright 1996, World Library(R)



BRIGHT STAR WOULD I WERE STEDFAST AS THOU ART-
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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 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 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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