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On Visiting the Tomb of Burns

by John Keats

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The Town, the churchyard, and the setting sun, The Clouds, the trees, the rounded hills all seem, Though beautiful, cold⁠—strange⁠—as in a dream, I dreamed long ago, now new begun. The short lived, paly Summer is but won From Winter’s ague, for one hour’s gleam; Though sapphire-warm, their Stars do never beam: All is cold Beauty; pain is never done: For who has mind to relish, Minos-wise, The Real of Beauty, free from that dead hue Sickly imagination and sick pride Cast wan upon it! Burns! with honour due I oft have honour’d thee. Great shadow, hide Thy face; I sin against thy native skies.

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