Ad Vilmum Axiologum

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Title:     Ad Vilmum Axiologum
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

[TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH]

This be the meed, that thy song creates a thousand-fold echo!
Sweet as the warble of woods, that awakes at the gale of the morning!
List! the Hearts of the Pure, like caves in the ancient mountains
Deep, deep _in_ the Bosom, and _from_ the Bosom resound it,
Each with a different tone, complete or in musical fragments--
All have welcomed thy Voice, and receive and retain and prolong it!

This is the word of the Lord! it is spoken, and Beings Eternal
Live and are borne as an Infant; the Eternal begets the Immortal:
Love is the Spirit of Life, and Music the Life of the Spirit!

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Ad Vilmum Axiologum

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