Hyperion by John Keats

Here is an extract from book 1 of John Keats abandoned poem Hyperion. The poem would go on to provide the inspiration for the sci fi novel of the same name, in which John Keats is a character.

Saturn is fallen, am I too to fall?

Am I to leave this haven of my rest,b

This cradle of my glory, this soft clime,

This calm luxuriance of blissful light,

These crystalline pavilions, and pure fanes,

Of all my lucent empire? It is left

Deserted, void, nor any haunt of mine.

The blaze, the splendor, and the symmetry,

I cannot see – but darkness, death and darkness.

Even here, into my centre of repose,

The shady visions come to domineer,

Insult, and blind, and stifle up my pomp. –

Fall! – No, by Tellus and her briny robes!

Over the fiery frontier of my realms

I will advance a terrible right arm

Shall scare that infant thunderer, rebel Jove,

And bid old Saturn take his throne again