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When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt (fragment)

by Samuel Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt--
A Flight of Hopes for ever on the wing
But made Tranquillity a conscious Thing--
And wheeling round and round in sportive coil
Fann'd the calm air upon the brow of Toil--




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