... earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors . . . So: he wishes that he were as steadfast as the star, but not "in lone splendor hung aloft the night" forever looking down on the earth. At this point Keats seems to switch to what the isolated, hermit-like star is watching: oceans and snow. Again, though, this ... brief summary leaves out the way Keats presents these things. We don't see impersonal expanses of ocean. Instead we (and the star) see "the moving waters at their priestlike task/ Of pure abolution round ... less changeabl...

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