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O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity; Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st. Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know "Ode to Grecian Urn" (1819) 41-50 |