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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Water Ballad
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011092
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Complete Poems
From Water Ballad [a French ballad]
Come hither, gently rowing
Come bear me quickly o'er
This stream so brightly flowing
To yonder woodland shore
But vain were my endeavour
To pay thee, courteous guide;
Row on, row on, for ever
I'd have thee by my side
Good boatman, prithee haste thee
I seek my father land
Say when I there have placed thee
Dare I demand thy hand?
A maiden's head can never
So hard a point decide;
Row on, row on for ever
I'd have thee by my side
The happy bridal over
The wanderer ceased to roam,
For, seated by her lover,
The boat became her home
And still they sang together
As steering o'er the tide
Row on through wind and weather
For ever by my side