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BY

HARTLEY COLERIDGE.

I write, endite, I point, I raze, I quote,
I interline, I blot, correct, I note,

I make, allege, I imitate, I feign.

Drayton.

For I, that God of Lov'is Servantes serve,
Ne dare to love, for mine unlikelinesse,
Prayin for spede, al should I therefore sterve,

So ferre am I fro his help in darknesse;

But nathelesse, if this may doe gladnesse

To any lovir, and his cause aveile,

Have he the thanke, and mine be the traveile.

Chaucer: Troilus and Creseide.

VOL. I.

LEEDS:

PUBLISHED BY F. E. BINGLEY, CORN-EXCHANGE;

AND BALDWIN AND CRADOCK,

LONDON.

1833.

DEDICATORY SONNET,

TO S. T. COLERIDGE.

Father, and Bard revered! to whom I owe,
Whate'er it be, my little art of numbers,

Thou, in thy night-watch o'er my cradled slumbers,
Didst meditate the verse that lives to shew,
(And long shall live, when we alike are low)
Thy prayer how ardent, and thy hope how strong,
That I should learn of Nature's self the song,
The lore which none but Nature's pupils know.

The prayer was heard: I "wander'd like a breeze," By mountain brooks and solitary meres, And gather'd there the shapes and phantasies Which, mixt with passions of my sadder years, Compose this book. If good therein there be, That good, my sire, I dedicate to thee.

HARTLEY COLERIDGE.

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