“In drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne'er remember
Their green felicity.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
"In drear-nighted December' (1817), st. 1
“I was a lovely tree, in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me; but thy death came like a blast from the desert, and laid my green head low.”
"Croma", p. 178
The Poems of Ossian
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The threshold of God's door
Is that clear band of chrysoprase;
Now the vast temple floor,
The blinding glory of the dome
I bow my head before.
Thy universe, O God, is home,
In height or depth, to me;
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Content am I to be;
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