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The literature of 1828, No.1

Thursday, 1st May 2008

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An immortal poem from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1828:

Work Without Hope

ALL Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair - 
The bees are stirring – birds are on the wing -
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

Yet will I ken banks where Amaranths blow,
Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow.
Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may.
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.


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