Sir John Davies On The Immortality Of The Soul

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Title:     Sir John Davies On The Immortality Of The Soul
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

(Sect. iv. Stanzas 12-14.)

Doubtless, this could not be, but that she turns
Bodies to spirits, by sublimation strange;
As fire converts to fire the things it burns;
As we our meats into our nature change.

From their gross matter she abstracts the forms,
And draws a kind of quintessence from things;
Which to her proper nature she transforms,
To bear them light, on her celestial wings.

This doth she, when, from things particular,
She doth abstract the universal kinds,
Which bodiless and immaterial are,
And can be only lodg'd within our minds.

Stanza 12 Doubtless, &c.
l. 2 Bodies to _spirit_, &c.
l. 4. As we our _food_, &c.

Stanza 13, l. 1 From their gross matter she abstracts _their_ forms.

Stanza 14

_Thus doth she, when from individual states_
She doth abstract the universal kinds;
_Which then re-clothed in divers names and_ fates
_Steal access through our senses to our_ minds.

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Sir John Davies On The Immortality Of The Soul

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