XV. On the Grasshopper and Cricket.

        THE poetry of earth is never dead:
          When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
          And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
        From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
        That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead
          In summer luxury,--he has never done
          With his delights; for when tired out with fun
        He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
        The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
          On a lone winter evening, when the frost                    10
            Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
        The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,
          And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
            The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.

            December 30, 1816.

Keats, John. 1884. Poetical Works.