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John Keats - ZaunköniG - 30.07.2007
John Keats
His youth was like the bloom of early May,
With all its freshness and its sweetness, too,
Yet with a promise richer as it grew,
Like roses budding for a summer day!
But Autumn came too soon, in garments gay,
With russet, red and gold and skies of blue,
Yet over all a melancholy hue--
A hectic beauty soon to fade away!
And now how strange it seems to you and me,
That even those who loved him passed the light;
That years rolled by in scorn and mockery
Before his star rose clear above the Night;
As if those ultra rays men could not see
Were rays divine, too fine for human sight.