Silent Form



  Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth Eternity: Cold Pastoral!
  When old age shall this generation waste,
    Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
  Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all
    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

-John Keats,
Ode on a Grecian Urn, 1819







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