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To Homer

John Keats·1795–1821
Lines:14Movement:Romanticism
Standing aloof in giant ignorance, Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,As one who sits ashore and longs perchance To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.So thou wast blind;--but then the veil was rent, For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live,And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent, And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;Aye on the shores of darkness there is light, And precipices show untrodden green,There is a budding morrow in midnight, There is a triple sight in blindness keen;Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befelTo Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell.