John Keats - Sonnet To Homer lyrics

Standing aloof in giant ignorance Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades As one who sits ashore and longs perchance To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas So thou wast blind; -- but then the veil was rent For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive Aye on the shores of darkness there is light And precipices show untrodden green There is a budding morrow in the midnight There is a triple sight in blindness keen Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befel To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell