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“——in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priest-like task,
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores.”

                                                                        Keats.

MLA citation:

Keats, John. Untitled. [from “Bright Star”], illustrated by W.T. Horton. The Green Sheaf, No. 6, 1903, p. 11. Green Sheaf Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022. https://1890s.ca/GSV6-keats-bright-star/