...the trembling waters. " Watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores." Gross darkness is left behind, the dew E is on the lotus, a rainbow smiles upon the shining sea, that...

...Complaint' BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, The moving waters at their priest-like 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 steadfast,...

...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 steadfast,...

...hung aloft the night Aud 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 solt-fallen mask Ol' snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still t-teadfast,...

...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 steadfast,...

...beliefs, and were not simply the outcome of a poetic imagination. Keats, in one of his Sonnets, speaks of "The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round Earth's human shore." Here he gives us the poetical and not the actual interpretation of a natural phenomenon. We...

...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 steadfast,...

...speaks in his most mature tone, it is the accent of Sophocles, not the accent of Spenser, we hear ' The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores. ' ' Like anxious men Who on wide plains gather in panting troops, When earthquakes jar their battlements...

...hardly a matter of clear consciousness, and the threads are wellnigh inextricable, as in Keats : — " The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores." One of the simplest and at the same time most magnificent examples of what I mean is the line from...

...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 steadfast,...