<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512802" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Revisiting The Sea-Shore, After Long Absence, Under Strong Medical Recommendation Not To Bathe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">God be with thee, gladsome Ocean!<br>How gladly greet I thee once more!<br>Ships and waves, and ceaseless motion, <br>And men rejoicing on thy shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dissuading spake the mild physician,<br>'Those briny waves for thee are death!'<br>But my soul fulfilled her mission,<br>And lo! I breathe untroubled breath!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fashion's pining sons and daughters,<br>That seek the crowd they seem to fly,<br>Trembling they approach thy waters;<br>And what cares Nature, if they die?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me a thousand hopes and pleasures,<br>A thousand recollections bland,<br>Thoughts sublime, and stately measures,<br>Revisit on thy echoing stand:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dreams (the soul herself forsaking), <br>Tearful raptures, boyish mirth; <br>Silent adorations, making<br>A blessed shadow of this Earth!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O ye hopes, that stir within me,<br>Health comes with you from above!<br>God is with me, God is in me!<br>I cannot die, if Life be Love.</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=512802" data-title="On Revisiting The Sea-Shore, After Long Absence, Under Strong Medical Recommendation Not To Bathe de Samuel Taylor Coleridge" data-description="God be with thee, gladsome Ocean! How gladly greet I thee once more! Ships and waves, and ceaseless motion, And men rejoicing on thy shore. Dissuading spake the mild physician, 'Those briny waves for thee are death!' But my soul fulfilled her mi..."></div> </div> </div>

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