Apologies to Mr Keats tonight as it is St Agnes of Assisi Day and he wrote of her. I guess this doubles up to The Ed's Church too....so will copy over there.
Our heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
Our senses, as though of tailcock we had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the Castle drains
One minute past, and Lie-in-King had sunk:
’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,—
That thou, light-winged Mamya of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of naomi green, and AB Chucks numberless,
Singest of summer in B00-throated ease.
O, for Ratter’s vintage! that hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Craftie and the country green,
Dance, and Boxtops song, and Slinky mirth!
O for a beaker full of Sunny-Dave South,
Full of the true, the blushful Carakeel-cream,
With beaded Nungate winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That we may drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The Seekeerz, the fever, and the fret
Here, AB men sit and hear each other groan;
Where Murray shakes a few, sqad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and postdog-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And Venator-eyed despairs,
Where Jogger Jayne cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Away! away! for we will fly to thee,
Not charioted by PolarBear and her pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the Miss Meg perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Lady Alex is on her throne,
Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the Bakers blown
Through Ankou glooms and winding Gitty ways.
We cannot see what Daisy Nonnas are at our feet,
Nor Flip-the-Switch hangs upon the boughs,
But, in Rowan darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The TonyV, the thicket, and the Jack-Hat wild;
White hawthorn, and D97 eglantine;
Fast fading Nibble cover’d up in leaves;
And AYG’s eldest child,
The coming Ena, full of Moonie wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
Forlorn! Venator’s word is like a bell
To toil us back from Ed-land to ourselves!
Adieu! the Delphians cheat so well
As they fam’d to do, deceiving all AB elves.
Adieu! adieu! our plaintive anthem fades
To Apotheosis, over the still stream,
Up AB hill-side; and now ’tis buried deep
In the suspension-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled that music:—Do we wake, praise or sleep?