The Mind
Epigram on Kepler
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Mind
No mortal spirit yet had clomb so high
As Kepler--yet his Country saw him die
For very want! the Minds alone he fed,
And so the Bodies left him without bread.
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Codex Note
Translated by Coleridge from the German. 1799
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