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An Experiment for a Metre: I heard a voice pealing loud triumph to-day
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
I heard a voice pealing loud triumph to-day:
The voice of the Triumph, O Freedom, was thine!
Sumptuous Tyranny challeng'd the fray,
'Drunk with Idolatry, drunk with wine.'
Whose could the Triumph be Freedom but thine?
Stars of the Heaven shine to feed thee;
Hush'd are the Whirl-blasts and heed thee;--
By her depth, by her height, Nature swears thou art mine!
Codex Note
1801
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “An Experiment for a Metre: I heard a voice pealing loud triumph to-day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/498/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “An Experiment for a Metre: I heard a voice pealing loud triumph to-day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/498/.
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