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.
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.
John Keats - 1819
PLAYLISTSally Shapiro - Miracle
My Guilty Pleasure (Paperbag records - 2009)
www.myspace.com/shapirosally
My Brightest Diamond - Inside A Boy
A Thousand Shark's Teeth (Asthmatic Kitty - 2008)
www.mybrightestdiamond.com
Broken Records - If The News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It
Until The Earth Begins To Part (4AD - 2009)
www.brokenrecordsband.com
Megafaun - The Fade
Gather, Form & Fly (Table of Elements - 2009)
www.myspace.com/megafaun
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Frank, AB
Hometowns (Saddle Creek - 2009)
www.theraa.com
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