use language we can comprehend

An apostrophe to a fair star in the night sky, and one which extols an ancient virtue. Keat's star is removed, cold, absent, a center outside structure. Yea, steadfast, but too far from fair love or foul earth.

BRIGHT STAR

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—

Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,

The moving waters at their priestlike task

Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,

Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask

Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—

No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,

Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,

To feel for ever its soft swell and fall,

Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

And so live ever—or else swoon to death.

            — John Keats