Donne [Eclogue. 'On Unworthy Wisdom']

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Title:     Donne [Eclogue. 'On Unworthy Wisdom']
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

So reclused Hermits oftentimes do know
More of Heaven's glory than a worldly can:
As Man is of the World, the Heart of Man
Is an Epitome of God's great Book
Of Creatures, and Men need no further look.

These lines are quoted by Coleridge in _The Friend_, 1818, i. 192; 1850, i. 147. The first two lines run thus:

_The_ recluse _Hermit oft'_ times _more doth_ know
_Of the world's inmost wheels_, than worldlings can, &c.

The alteration was first pointed out in an edition of _The Friend_ issued by H. N. Coleridge in 1837.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Donne [eclogue. 'on Unworthy Wisdom']

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