Nature
For a Market-Clock
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Nature
What now, O Man! thou dost or mean'st to do
Will help to give thee peace, or make thee rue,
When hovering o'er the Dot this hand shall tell
The moment that secures thee Heaven or Hell!
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Codex Note
(Impromptu). 1809
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “For a Market-Clock.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/255/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “For a Market-Clock.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/255/.
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