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Time, as he courses onwards, still unrolls The volume of concealment. In the future, As in the optician’s glassy cylinder, The undistinguishable blots and colours Of the dim past collect and shape themselves, Upstarting in their own completed image To scare, or to reward.
Time, as he courses onwards, still unrolls The volume of concealment. In the future, As in the optician’s glassy cylinder, The undistinguishable blots and colours Of the dim past collect and shape themselves, Upstarting in their own completed image To scare, or to reward.
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 607 · printed citation: Coleridge · subject: TIME
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