Perspiration, A Travelling Eclogue

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Title:     Perspiration, A Travelling Eclogue
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

The dust flies smothering, as on clatt'ring wheel
Loath'd Aristocracy careers along;
The distant track quick vibrates to the eye,
And white and dazzling undulates with heat,
Where scorching to the unwary traveller's touch,
The stone fence flings its narrow slip of shade;
Or, where the worn sides of the chalky road
Yield their scant excavations (sultry grots!),
Emblem of languid patience, we behold
The fleecy files faint-ruminating lie.

1794.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Perspiration, A Travelling Eclogue

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