Dürer, A Heavenly Body in the Night Sky, 1497
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.
John Keats
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