Nature
The Second Birth
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Nature
There are two births, the one when Light
First strikes the new-awaken'd sense--
The other when two souls unite,
And we must count our life from then.
When you lov'd me, and I lov'd you,
Then both of us were born anew.
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Codex Note
? 1801
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Second Birth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/236/.
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