Ver Perpetuum

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Title:     Ver Perpetuum
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

FRAGMENT

From an unpublished poem.

The early Year's fast-flying vapours stray
In shadowing trains across the orb of day:
And we, poor Insects of a few short hours,
Deem it a world of Gloom.
Were it not better hope a nobler doom,
Proud to believe that with more active powers
On rapid many-coloured wing
We thro' one bright perpetual Spring
Shall hover round the fruits and flowers,
Screen'd by those clouds and cherish'd by those showers!

1796.

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Ver Perpetuum

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