Arts & Sciences
A Metrical Accident
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Arts & Sciences
Then Jerome did call
From his flame-pointed Fence;
Which under he trod,
As upward to mount
From the fiery flood,--
'I summon you all,
A hundred years hence,
To appear before God,
To give an account
Of my innocent blood!'
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Codex Note
July 7, 1826
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “A Metrical Accident.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/510/.
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