... I were stedfast as thou art." Such a direct address also implies some degree of personification of the star--that is, treating the star as if it has some human attributes. But what attributes? Keats immediately begins to tell us what it is about the star that he doesn't envy: Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patent, sleepless eremite ... ablution round 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 lon...

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