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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendor 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.

John Keats

Quotation #54887

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Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats [1848], edited by Richard Monckton Milnes [1809–1885], Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats. Sonnet. Bright Star

Source: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats [1848], edited by Richard Monckton Milnes [1809–1885], Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats. Sonnet. Bright Star
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