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The
Grave of Keats
Rid
of the world's injustice, and his
pain,
He rests at last beneath God's veil
of blue:
Taken from life when life and love
were new
The youngest of the martyrs here is
lain,
Fair as Sebastian, and as early slain.
No cypress shades his grave, no funeral
yew,
But gentle violets weeping with the
dew
Weave on his bones an ever-blossoming
chain.
O proudest heart that broke for misery!
O sweetest lips since those of Mitylene!
O poet-painter of our English Land!
Thy name was writ in water - it shall
stand:
And tears like mine will keep thy
memory green,
As Isabella did her Basil-tree.
~
Oscar Wilde
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