Great Spirits Now on Earth Are Sojourning

John Keats(1795–1821)

The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats, 1816

Great spirits now on earth are sojourning;He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake,Who on Helvellyn's summit, wide awake,Catches his freshness from Archangel's wing:He of the rose, the violet, the spring,The social smile, the chain for Freedom's sake:And lo!—whose steadfastness would never takeA meaner sound than Raphael's whispering.And other spirits there are standing apartUpon the forehead of the age to come;These, these will give the world another heart,And other pulses. Hear ye not the humOf mighty workings in the human mart?Listen awhile ye nations, and be dumb.

From The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats (1816), via the English Wikisource transcription.

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