Thursday, February 02, 2012

To Solitude


Photo by Serhat Demiroglu

Posted by "CavalierZee"


O solitude! if I must with thee dwell, 
Let it not be among the jumbled heap 
Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep,— 
Nature's observatory—whence the dell, 
Its flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, 
May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 
'Mongst boughs pavillion'd, where the deer's swift leap 
Startles the wild bee from the fox-glove bell. 
But though I'll gladly trace these scenes with thee, 
Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind, 
Whose words are images of thoughts refin'd, 
Is my soul's pleasure; and it sure must be 
Almost the highest bliss of human-kind, 
When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee. ” 


[By John Keats]

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