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11/6/09
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave
A paradise for a sect; the savage too
From forth the loftiest fashion of his sleep
Guesses at Heaven; pity these have not
Trac'd upon vellum or wild Indian leaf
The shadows of melodious utterance.
But bare of laurel they live, dream, and die;
For Poesy alone can tell her dreams,
With the fine spell of words alone can save
Imagination from the sable charm
And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say,
'Thou art no Poet may'st not tell thy dreams?'
Since every man whose soul is not a clod
Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved
And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.
Whether the dream now purpos'd to rehearse
Be poet's or fanatic's will be known
When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave.

Methought I stood where trees of every clime,
Palm, myrtle, oak, and sycamore, and beech,
With plantain, and spice blossoms, made a screen;
In neighbourhood of fountains, by the noise
Soft showering in my ears, and, by the touch
Of scent, not far from roses.

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Tienen los locos sueños donde traman
elíseos de una secta. Y el salvaje
vislumbra desde el sueño más profundo
lo celestial. Es lástima que no hayan
transcrito en una hoja o en vitela
las sombras de esa lengua melodiosa
y sin laurel transcurran, sueñen, mueran.
Pues sólo la Poesía dice el sueño,
con hermosas palabras salvar puede
a la Imaginación del negro encanto
y el mudo sortilegio. ¿Quién que vive
dirá: "no eres poeta si no escribes
tus sueños"? Pues todo aquel que tenga alma
tendrá también visiones y hablará
de ellas si en su lengua es bien criado.
Si el sueño que propongo lo es de un loco
o un poeta tan sólo se sabrá
cuando mi mano repose en la tumba.


Soñé que en un lugar estaba donde
palmera, haya, mirto, sicomoro
y plátano y laurel formaban bóvedas
cerca de manantiales cuya voz
refrescaba mi oído y donde el tacto
de un perfume me hablaba de las rosas.


John Keats, La caída de Hyperion

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