From 'Religious Musings'

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)



I

THERE is one Mind, one omnipresent Mind,  
Omnific. His most holy name is Love.  
Truth of subliming import! with the which  
Who feeds and saturates his constant soul,  
He from his small particular orbit flies          
With blest outstarting! From himself he flies,  
Stands in the sun, and with no partial gaze  
Views all creation; and he loves it all,  
And blesses it, and calls it very good!  
This is indeed to dwell with the Most High!         
Cherubs and rapture-trembling Seraphim  
Can press no nearer to the Almighty’s throne.  
But that we roam unconscious, or with hearts  
Unfeeling of our universal Sire,  
And that in His vast family no Cain         
Injures uninjured (in her best-aimed blow  
Victorious Murder a blind Suicide)  
Haply for this some younger Angel now  
Looks down on Human Nature: and, behold!  
A sea of blood bestrewed with wrecks, where mad         
Embattling Interests on each other rush  
With unhelmed rage!  
 ’Tis the sublime of man,  
Our noontide Majesty, to know ourselves  
Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole!         
This fraternizes man, this constitutes  
Our charities and bearings. But ’tis God  
Diffused through all, that doth make all one whole;  
This the worst superstition, him except  
Aught to desire, Supreme Reality!         
The plenitude and permanence of bliss!  
 
II

 Toy-bewitched,  
Made blind by lusts, disherited of soul,  
No common centre Man, no common sire  
Knoweth! A sordid solitary thing,         
Mid countless brethren with a lonely heart  
Through courts and cities the smooth savage roams  
Feeling himself, his own low self the whole;  
When he by sacred sympathy might make  
The whole one Self! Self, that no alien knows!         
Self, far diffused as Fancy’s wing can travel!  
Self, spreading still! Oblivious of its own,  
Yet all of all possessing! This is Faith!  
This the Messiah’s destined victory!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. more…

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