The Mind
A Simile
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Mind
As the shy hind, the soft-eyed gentle Brute
Now moves, now stops, approaches by degrees--
At length emerges from the shelt'ring Trees,
Lur'd by her Hunter with the Shepherd's flute,
Whose music travelling on the twilight breeze,
When all besides was mute--
She oft had heard, and ever lov'd to hear;
She fearful Beast! but that no sound of Fear----
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