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" I am a shadow now, alas! alas!
Upon the skirts of human-nature dwelling
Alone: I chant alone the holy mass,
While little sounds of life are round me knelling,
And glossy bees at noon do fieldward pass,
And many a chapel bell the hour is telling, 310
Paining me through: those sounds grow strange to me,
And thou art distant in Humanity. "

John Keats , Complete Works of John Keats


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John Keats quote : I am a shadow now, alas! alas!<br />Upon the skirts of human-nature dwelling<br />Alone: I chant alone the holy mass,<br />While little sounds of life are round me knelling,<br />And glossy bees at noon do fieldward pass,<br />And many a chapel bell the hour is telling, 310<br />Paining me through: those sounds grow strange to me,<br />And thou art distant in Humanity.