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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Untitled
Identifier
011094
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Complete Poems
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Upon the mountain's Edge all lightly resting
There a brief while the Globe of splendour sits
And seems a creature of this earth; but soon
More changeful than the Moon
To Wane fantastic his great orb submits,
Or cone or mow of Fire, till sinking slowly
Even to a Star at length he lessens wholly
Abrupt, as Spirits vanish, he is sunk
A soul like breeze possesses all the wood;
The Boughs, the sprays have stood
As motionless, as stands the ancient Trunk
But every leaf through all the forest flutters
And deep the Cavern of the Fountain mutters