When I Have Fears by John Keats

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain
Before high piled books in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain; 
When I behold, upon the night's starred face,
Huge cloudy symbols of high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows with the magic hand of chance; 
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love; - then on the shore 
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

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