<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 15.5pt; color: rgb(49, 49, 49);"><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/126/32.html" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(49, 49, 49);">A Thing of Beauty</span></a></span></b><div><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 16.5pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 15.5pt; color: rgb(49, 49, 49);"> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 16.5pt; outline: none; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49);">By John Keats<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 16.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(49, 49, 49);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 16.5pt; outline: none; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49);">A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Its lovliness increases; it will never<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Pass into nothingness; but still will keep<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">A bower quiet for us, and a sleep<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">A flowery band to bind us to the earth,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Of all the unhealthy and o’er-darkn’d ways<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Some shape of beauty moves away the pall<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">For simple sheep; and such are daffodils<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">With the green world they live in; and clear rills<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">That for themselves a cooling covert make<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">‘Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">And such too is the grandeur of the dooms<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">We have imagined for the mighty dead;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">An endless fountain of immortal drink,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="outline: none;">Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></body></html>