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John Keats. (1795–1821) (continued)

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.

Sonnet.

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Here lies one whose name was writ in water. 1

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard. (1795–1828)

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Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

Lament for Long Tom.

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    At the piping of all hands,
  When the judgment-signal ’s spread—
When the islands and the lands
  And the seas give up their dead,
And the South and North shall come;
  When the sinner is dismayed,
  And the just man is afraid,
  Then Heaven be thy aid,
          Poor Tom.

Lament for Long Tom.

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Far beneath the tainted foam
That frets above our peaceful home,
We dream in joy and wake in love
Nor know the rage that yells above.

The Deep. 2

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    I saw two clouds at morning,
  Tinged with the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on,
  And mingled into one.
I thought that morning cloud was blest,
It moved so sweetly to the West.

Epithalamium.

Note 1.
See Chapman, Quotation 20.

Among the many things he has requested of me to-night, this is the principal,—that on his gravestone shall be this inscription.—Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton): Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats. Letter to Severn, vol. ii. p. 91. [back]

Note 2.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: When winds are raging o’er the upper ocean. [back]

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