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Coleridge, David Hartley - Far from all measured space, yet clear and plain
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013498
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Bricks without Mortar – The Selected Poems of Hartley Coleridge
Far from all measured space, yet clear and plain
As sun at noon, a mighty orb of song
Illumes extremest Heaven. Beyond the throng
Of lesser stars, that rise, and wax, and wane,
The transient rulers of the fickle main,
One steadfast light gleams through the dark and long
And narrowing aisle of memory. How strong
How fortified with all the numerous train
Of human truths, Great Poet of thy kind
Wert thou, whose verse, capacious as the sea
And various as the voices of the wind,
Swell’d with the gladness of the battle’s glee –
And yet could glorify infirmity
When Priam wept or shame struck Helen pined