1. ۱Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
2. ۲ Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
3. ۳Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
4. ۴ A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
5. ۵What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
6. ۶ Of deities or mortals, or of both,
7. ۷ In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
8. ۸ What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
9. ۹What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
10. ۱۰ What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
11. ۱۱
12. ۱۲Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
13. ۱۳ Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
14. ۱۴Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
15. ۱۵ Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
16. ۱۶Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
17. ۱۷ Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
18. ۱۸ Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
19. ۱۹Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;
20. ۲۰ She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
21. ۲۱ For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
22. ۲۲
23. ۲۳Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
24. ۲۴ Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
25. ۲۵And, happy melodist, unwearied,
26. ۲۶ For ever piping songs for ever new;
27. ۲۷More happy love! more happy, happy love!
28. ۲۸ For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,
29. ۲۹ For ever panting, and for ever young;
30. ۳۰All breathing human passion far above,
31. ۳۱ That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,
32. ۳۲ A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
33. ۳۳
34. ۳۴Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
35. ۳۵ To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
36. ۳۶Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
37. ۳۷ And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
38. ۳۸What little town by river or sea shore,
39. ۳۹ Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
40. ۴۰ Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
41. ۴۱And, little town, thy streets for evermore
42. ۴۲ Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
43. ۴۳ Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
44. ۴۴
45. ۴۵O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
46. ۴۶ Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
47. ۴۷With forest branches and the trodden weed;
48. ۴۸ Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
49. ۴۹As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
50. ۵۰ When old age shall this generation waste,
51. ۵۱ Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
52. ۵۲Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
53. ۵۳ "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all
54. ۵۴ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."