Nature
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Nature
The poet in his lone yet genial hour
Gives to his eyes a magnifying power:
Or rather he emancipates his eyes
From the black shapeless accidents of size--
In unctuous cones of kindling coal,
Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim hole,
His gifted ken can see
Phantoms of sublimity.
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Codex Note
1800
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