Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Name: First Attempt at Making a Verse
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“First Attempt at Making a Verse”, published in 1794, is a work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It explores elements such as Shines, unprofaned and blood.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, First Attempt at Making a Verse (1794)

“ Soul-hardened barterers of human blood!
Death’s prime slave-merchants! Scorpion-whips of Fate!
Nor least in savagery of holy zeal,
Apt for the yoke, the race degenerate,
Whom Britain erst had blushed to call her sons!
Thee to defend the Moloch Priest prefers
The prayer of hate, and bellows to the herd,
That Deity, Accomplice Deity
In the fierce jealousy of wakened wrath
Will go forth with our armies and our fleets
To scatter the red ruin on their foes!
O blasphemy! to mingle fiendish deeds
With blessedness!
Lord of unsleeping Love,
From everlasting Thou! We shall not die. ”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, First Attempt at Making a Verse (1794)

“ Statesmen blood-stained and priests idolatrous
By dark lies maddening the blind multitude
Drove with vain hate. Calm, pitying he retired,
And mused expectant on these promised years.
O Years! the blest pre-eminence of Saints!
Ye sweep athwart my gaze, so heavenly bright,
The wings that veil the adoring Seraphs’ eyes,
What time they bend before the Jasper Throne
Reflect no lovelier hues! Yet ye depart,
And all beyond is darkness! Heights most strange,
Whence Fancy falls, fluttering her idle wing. ”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, First Attempt at Making a Verse (1794)

“ Shall swear by Him, the ever-living One,
Time is no more!
Believe thou, O my soul,
Life is a vision shadowy of Truth;
And vice, and anguish, and the wormy grave,
Shapes of a dream! The veiling clouds retire,
And lo! the Throne of the redeeming God
Forth flashing unimaginable day
Wraps in one blaze earth, heaven, and deepest hell.
Contemplant Spirits! ye that hover o’er
With untired gaze the immeasurable fount
Ebullient with creative Deity!
And ye of plastic power, that interfused
Roll through the grosser and material mass
In organizing surge! Holies of God! ”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, First Attempt at Making a Verse (1794)

“ Who in this fleshly World, the elect of Heaven,
Their strong eye darting through the deeds of men,
Adore with steadfast unpresuming gaze
Him Nature’s essence, mind, and energy!
And gazing, trembling, patiently ascend
Treading beneath their feet all visible things
As steps, that upward to their Father’s throne
Lead gradual — else nor glorified nor loved. ”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, First Attempt at Making a Verse (1794)

“ Can press no nearer to the Almighty’s throne.
But that we roam unconscious, or with hearts
Unfeeling of our universal Sire,
And that in His vast family no Cain
Injures uninjured (in her best-aimed blow
Victorious Murder a blind Suicide)
Haply for this some younger Angel now
Looks down on Human Nature: and, behold!
A sea of blood bestrewed with wrecks, where mad
Embattling Interests on each other rush
With unhelmed rage! ”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, First Attempt at Making a Verse (1794)

“ Yet thou more bright than all the Angel-blaze,
That harbingered thy birth, Thou Man of Woes!
Despiséd Galilaean! For the Great
Invisible (by symbols only seen)
With a peculiar and surpassing light
Shines from the visage of the oppressed good man,
When heedless of himself the scourgéd saint
Mourns for the oppressor. Fair the vernal mead,
Fair the high grove, the sea, the sun, the stars;
True impress each of their creating Sire! ”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, First Attempt at Making a Verse (1794)

“ The erring Priest hath stained with brother’s blood
Your grisly idols, not for this may wrath
Thunder against you from the Holy One!
But o’er some plain that steameth to the sun,
Peopled with Death; or where more hideous Trade
Loud-laughing packs his bales of human anguish ”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, First Attempt at Making a Verse (1794)

“ Through courts and cities the smooth savage roams
Feeling himself, his own low self the whole;
When he by sacred sympathy might make
The whole one Self! Self, that no alien knows!
Self, far diffused as Fancy’s wing can travel! ”

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, First Attempt at Making a Verse (1794)

“ His waving banners of Omnipotence.
Who the Creator love, created Might
Dread not: within their tents no Terrors walk.
For they are holy things before the Lord
Aye unprofaned, though Earth should league with Hell ”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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