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Happy Insensibility by John Keats

By Anita Mathias

Happy Insensibility
 
IN a drear-nighted December,  
Too happy, happy tree,  
Thy branches ne’er remember  
Their green felicity:  
The north cannot undo them          5
With a sleety whistle through them,  
Nor frozen thawings glue them  
From budding at the prime.  
  
In a drear-nighted December,  
Too happy, happy brook,   10
Thy bubblings ne’er remember  
Apollo’s summer look;  
But with a sweet forgetting  
They stay their crystal fretting,  
Never, never petting   15
About the frozen time.  
  
Ah! would ’twere so with many  
A gentle girl and boy!  
But were there ever any  
Writhed not at passèd joy?   20
To know the change and feel it,  
When there is none to heal it  
Nor numbèd sense to steal it—  
Was never said in rhyme.

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Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art

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The Story of Dirk Willems

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