The Human Seasons
Chapter 2
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Four seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four reasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honied cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quit coves
His soul has in it's Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forgo his mortal nature.
- -John Keats
some useful word meaning
- Measure
- - Lenght, extent
- Lusty
- - Luxurious, vigorous
- When fancy clear
- - When one can think and feel clearly
- Span
- - Grasp
- Luxuriously
- - Richly
- honied
- - Sweet
- Cud
- - Food that cattle bring back from the stomach
- Ruminate
- - Think
- Coves
- - Bays or inlets
- Furleth close
- - Folded
- Unheeded
- - Unnoticed or uncared for
- A threshold brook
- - A stream flowing by a door
- Misfeature
- - Ugly look
- Forgo
- - Give up
- Mortal nature
- - Essential nature of human life that ends in death
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