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O, thou that rearest with celestial aim Thy future seraph in my mortal frame, Thrice holy Faith! whatever thorns I meet, As on I totter with unpractised feet, Still let me stretch my arms, and cling to thee, Meek nurse of souls, through my long infancy!
O, thou that rearest with celestial aim Thy future seraph in my mortal frame, Thrice holy Faith! whatever thorns I meet, As on I totter with unpractised feet, Still let me stretch my arms, and cling to thee, Meek nurse of souls, through my long infancy!
Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 212 · printed citation: Coleridge · subject: FAITH
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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