The Moon, How Definite Its Orb!

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Title:     The Moon, How Definite Its Orb!
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

The Moon, how definite its orb!
Yet gaze again, and with a steady gaze--
'Tis there indeed,--but where is it not?--
It is suffused o'er all the sapphire Heaven,
Trees, herbage, snake-like stream, unwrinkled Lake,
Whose very murmur does of it partake!

And low and close the broad smooth mountain is more a thing
of Heaven than when distinct by one dim shade, and yet
undivided from the universal cloud in which it towers infinite
in height.

First published from an MS. in 1893.

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Moon, How Definite Its Orb!

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