Rich in the simple worship of a day.

Continuing my agrument on Jon Mee's explanation of John Keats's intention on writing his letters on my last blog. I can give an other example to show John Keats is a genuine person who did not act or perform a role to his friends.  Also he was very affectionate and caring to his friends.  On 3 May 1818, a letter to Reynold who was suffering a long term illness, John Keats wrote in the beginning of the letter:

 " My dear Reynolds,  What I complain of is that I have been in so an uneasy a state of Mind as not to be fit to write to an invalid(means Reynolds). I cannot write to any length under a dis-guised feeling. I should have loaded you with an addition of gloom, which I am sure you do not want. I am now thank God in a humour to give you ...."

John Keats was very self-conscious of his emotional state and also cared about his friend and did not want to pass his moodiness through his letter to Reynolds. That is what his character is: true to himself, not suppress his emotion and at the same time care about his friends' feeling.

In the same letter, he consoled Reynolds who had to give up poetry for the career of law, he wrote: I do not see a Mind like yours is not capable of harbouring and digesting the whole Mystery of Law as easily as Parson Hugh does Pepins - which did not hinder him from his poetic Canary---Were I to study physic or rather Medicine again, --I feel it would not make the least difference in my Poetry; when the Mind is in its infancy a Bias is in reality a Bias, but when we have acquired more strength, a Bias becomes no Bias. Every department of knowledge we see excellent and calculated towards a great whole.

What he said above also shown his idea on Knowledge philosophically and looked at things in different perspective, an paradoxical way. And then, he continued to share his idea on Knowledge which he was also want to equipped himself with in his future plan of life. He wrote:

"An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people -- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the Burden of Mystery: a thing I begin to understand a little, and which weighed upon you in the most gloomy and true sentence in your letter. " Then he started a discussion on the use of knowledge and its relation with the Burden of Life Mystery which I won't quote at present.

Then he sent Reynolds a few lines which he wrote on May-day, the famouse fragment-an Ode to Maia:

Mother of Hermes! and still youthful Maia!
                  May I sing to thee
As thou wast hymned on the shores of Baiae?
                  Or may I woo thee
In earlier Siclian? or thy smiles
Seek as they once were sought, in Grecian isles,
By Bards who died content in pleasant sward,
Leaving great verse unto a little clan?
O give me their vigour, and unheard,
Save of the quiet Primrose, and the span
Of Heaven, and few ears
Rounded by thee my song should die away
Content as theirs
Rich in the simple worship of a day. --

I love the last sentence: Content as theirs   Rich in the simple worship of a day.
People should be content if they can enjoy their life passionately in a very simple way.
Don't need money, don't need material goods, fame, power, such and such.
Just like this morning, I listened to the beautiful classical paino music on Music On-line. I felt very nice and I thought: Life is Enjoyable!!