Note 176:1 — ON THE CHRISTENING OF A FRIEND'S CHILD[176:1]
Reading edition
First published in the Supplement to Poems, 1797: reprinted in Literary Remains, 1836, i. 48, 49: included in 1844 and 1852. The lines were addressed to Anna Cruickshank, the wife of John Cruickshank, who was a neighbour of Coleridge at Nether-Stowey.