<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=35063" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Constancy to an Ideal Object</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since all that beat about in Nature's range,<br>Or veer or vanish; why should'st thou remain<br>The only constant in a world of change,<br>O yearning Thought! that liv'st but in the brain?<br>Call to the Hours, that in the distance play,<br>The faery people of the future day--<br>Fond Thought! not one of all that shining swarm<br>Will breathe on thee with life-enkindling breath,<br>Till when, like strangers shelt'ring from a storm,<br>Hope and Despair meet in the porch of Death!<br>Yet still thou haunt'st me; and though well I see,<br>She is not thou, and only thou are she,<br>Still, still as though some dear embodied Good,<br>Some living Love before my eyes there stood<br>With answering look a ready ear to lend,<br>I mourn to thee and say--'Ah! loveliest friend!<br>That this the meed of all my toils might be,<br>To have a home, an English home, and thee!'<br>Vain repetition! Home and Thou are one.<br>The peacefull'st cot, the moon shall shine upon,<br>Lulled by the thrush and wakened by the lark,<br>Without thee were but a becalm{'e}d bark,<br>Whose Helmsman on an ocean waste and wide<br>Sits mute and pale his mouldering helm beside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And art thou nothing? Such thou art, as when<br>The woodman winding westward up the glen<br>At wintry dawn, where o'er the sheep-track's maze<br>The viewless snow-mist weaves a glist'ning haze,<br>Sees full before him, gliding without tread,<br>An image with a glory round its head;<br>The enamoured rustic worships its fair hues,<br>Nor knows he makes the shadow, he pursues!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=35063" data-title="Constancy to an Ideal Object de Samuel Taylor Coleridge" data-description="Since all that beat about in Nature's range,/Or veer or vanish; why should'st thou remain/The only constant in a world of change,/O yearning Thought! that liv'st but in the brain?/Call to the Hours, that in the distance play,/The faery people of t..."></div> </div> </div>

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