The Mind
Fragment: O! Superstition is the giant shadow
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Mind
O! Superstition is the giant shadow
Which the solicitude of weak mortality,
Its back toward Religion's rising sun,
Casts on the thin mist of th' uncertain future.
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Codex Note
1816
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: O! Superstition is the giant shadow.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/475/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: O! Superstition is the giant shadow.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/475/.
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