John Keats To Homer                         Standing aloof in giant ignorance,         Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades, As one who sits ashore and longs perchance         To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas. So thou wast blind;--but then the veil was rent,         For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live, And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent,         And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive; Aye on the shores of darkness there is light,         And precipices show untrodden green, There is a budding morrow in midnight,         There is a triple sight in blindness keen; Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befel To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell. 1818