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what's o'clock
ON READING A LINE UNDERSCORED BY KEATS
In a Copy of "Palmerin of England"
You marked it with light pencil upon a printed page,
And, as though your finger pointed along a sunny path for my eyes' better direction,
I see "a knight mounted on a mulberry courser and attired in green armour."
I think the sky is faintly blue, but with a Spring shining about it,
And the new grass scarcely fetlock high in the meads.
He rides, I believe, alongside an overflown river,
By a path soft and easy to his charger's feet.
My vision confuses you with the green-armoured knight:
So dight and caparisoned might you be in a land of Faery.
And, as though your finger pointed along a sunny path for my eyes' better direction,
I see "a knight mounted on a mulberry courser and attired in green armour."
I think the sky is faintly blue, but with a Spring shining about it,
And the new grass scarcely fetlock high in the meads.
He rides, I believe, alongside an overflown river,
By a path soft and easy to his charger's feet.
My vision confuses you with the green-armoured knight:
So dight and caparisoned might you be in a land of Faery.
