The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume I Part 62

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume I Part 62

[91] Synod] Senate 1797, 1803.


[94-102]


For ever shall the b.l.o.o.d.y island scowl?


For ever shall her vast and iron bow Shoot Famines evil arrows oer the world,[165:B]


Hark! how wide Nature joins her groans below; Rise, G.o.d of Mercy, rise! why sleep thy bolts unhurld?


C. I.


For ever shall the b.l.o.o.d.y Island scowl?


For aye, unbroken shall her cruel Bow Shoot Famines arrows oer thy ravaged World?


Hark! how wide Nature joins her groans below-- Rise, G.o.d of Nature, rise, why sleep thy Bolts unhurld?


4{o}, 1797, 1803.


Rise G.o.d of Nature, rise! ah! why those bolts unhurld?


1797, 1803.


[165:B] In Europe the smoking villages of Flanders and the putrified fields of La Vendee--from Africa the unnumbered victims of a detestable Slave-Trade. In Asia the desolated plains of Indostan, and the millions whom a rice-contracting Governor caused to perish. In America the recent enormities of the Scalp-merchants. The four quarters of the globe groan beneath the intolerable iniquity of the nation. See Addresses to the People, p. 46. _C. I._


[102] Here the Ode ends C. I.


VI] Epode II. 4{o}, 1797, 1803.


[103] Vision] Phantoms 4{o}, 1797, 1803.


[106] phantom] vision 4{o}, 1797, 1803.


[107] sweat-drops] sweat-damps 4{o}, 1797, 1803.


[113] stranger] uglier 4{o}.


[119] starting] startful 4{o}, 1797, 1803.


[121] O doomd to fall, enslavd and vile 4{o}, 1797, 1803.


[133] proud Invaders] sworded Foemans 4{o}, 1797: sworded Warriors 1803.


[135-9]


Disclaimd of Heaven! mad Avarice at thy side


4{o}, 1797.


At coward distance, yet with kindling pride-- Safe mid thy herds and cornfields thou hast stood, And joind the yell of Famine and of Blood.


All nations curse thee: and with eager wondring


4{o}, 1797.


[135] O abandond 1803.


[137-8]


Mid thy Corn-fields and Herds thou in plenty hast stood And joind the loud yellings of Famine and Blood.


1803.


[139] They] and 1797, 1803, S. L. 1817.


[142] fires] flames 4{o}.


[144]


Stretchd on the marge of some fire-flashing fount In the black Chamber of a sulphurd mount.


4{o}.


[144] By livid fount, or roar of blazing stream 1797.


[146] Visions of thy predestind ruins rise 1803.


[151] famishd] famind 4{o}.


[156] Soliciting my scant and blameless soil 4{o}.


[159-60]


In the long sabbath of high self-content.


Cleansd from the fleshly pa.s.sions that bedim


4{o}.


In the deep sabbath of blest self-content Cleansd from the fears and anguish that bedim


1797.


In the blest sabbath of high self-content Cleansd from bedimming Fear, and Anguish weak and blind.


1803.


[161] om. 1803.


THE RAVEN[169:1]


A CHRISTMAS TALE, TOLD BY A SCHOOL-BOY TO HIS LITTLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS