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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - The Night Scene
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011086
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Complete Poems
From The Night Scene
Sandoval [alone]
Oh Henry! Always strivest thou to be great
By thine own act – yet art thou never great
But by the inspiration of great passion.
The whirl blast comes, the desert sands rise up
And shape themselves; from earth to heaven they stand,
As though they were the pillars of a temple,
Built by Omnipotence in its own honour!
But the blast pauses, and their shaping spirit
Is fled; the mighty columns were but sand
And lazy snakes trail o'er the level ruins
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Earl Henry
Oh! there is joy above the name of pleasure,
Deep self possession, an intense repose.
Sandoval
No other than as eastern sages paint
The God, who floats upon a lotus leaf
Dreams for a thousand ages; then awaking,
Creates a world, and smiling at the bubble
Relapses into bliss