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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - To a Young Friend
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Complete Poems
From to a Young Friend
Thus rudely versed in allegoric lore,
The Hill of Knowledge I essayed to trace
That verdurous hill with many a resting place,
And many a stream, whose warbling waters pour
To glad and fertilise the subject plains;
That hill with secret springs, and nooks untrod,
And many a fancy blessed and holy sod
Where Inspiration, his diviner strains
Low murmuring lay; and starting from the rocks
Stiff evergreens, whose spreading foliage mocks
Want's barren soil, and the bleak frosts of age,
And bigotry's mad fire invoking rage!
O meek retiring spirit! We will climb
Cheering and cheered, this lovely hill sublime