...beyond its boundaries, and he therefore assumes full responsibility for a metaphor, even a daring one: "The moving waters at their priestlike task / Of pure ablution round earth's human shores." Everyone agrees that Keats has allowed his fancy to soar, but at least he makes no apology for that....

...beyond its boundaries, and he therefore assumes full responsibility for a metaphor, even a daring one: "The moving waters at their priestlike task / Of pure ablution round earth's human shores." Everyone agrees that Keats has allowed his fancy to soar, but at least he makes no apology for that....

...aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, 5 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 — 1 3 Still, still...

...Star Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient,...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...

...example: Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient,...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task. . . . ("Bright star, would I were stedfast . . .") In order for the allusion to work, the reader naturally...

...— Not in lone splendour 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 eartns human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mass Of snow upon the mountains and the moors:...

...Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient,...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,...

...art — Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like natures patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their...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...

...hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,1 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...

...poetry; in Keats's 'magic casements opening on the foam of perilous seas in faery lands forlorn';0 in his 'moving waters at their priest-like task of pure ablution round earth's human shore';0 in Shakespeare's 'floor of heaven,' 'inlaid with patens of bright gold'; and in his Dido standing...