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Слушать(AI)What Is Life
Resembles Life what once was held of Light, Too ample in itself for human sight?
An absolute Self--an element ungrounded--All, that we see, all colours of all shade By encroach of darkness made?--Is very life by consciousness unbounded?
And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
A war-embrace of wrestling Life and Death?
Published in 1829.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend W
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