Nature
Translation: Depart in joy from this world's noise and strife
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Depart in joy from this world's noise and strife
To the deep quiet of celestial life!
Depart!--Affection's self reproves the tear
Which falls, O honour'd Parent! on thy bier;--
Yet Nature will be heard, the heart will swell,
And the voice tremble with a last Farewell!
'Lætus abi! mundi strepitu curisque remotus;
Lætus abi! cæli quâ vocat alma Quies.
Ipsa fides loquitur lacrymamque incusat inanem,
Quæ cadit in vestros, care Pater, Cineres.
Heu! tantum liceat meritos hos solvere Ritus,
Naturæ et tremulâ dicere Voce, Vale!']
Codex Note
Translated by Coleridge from a Latin inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles. 1797
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Translation: Depart in joy from this world's noise and strife.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/205/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Translation: Depart in joy from this world's noise and strife.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/205/.
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