Note 13 — Early Poems (continued 4)
Reading edition
Cf. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, iv.:— “O happy living things ... I blessed them The self-same moment I could pray.” There is a close parallel between the former and the latter state described here and in Coleridge’s mystic allegory; in both cases the sufferers “wake to love,” the curse falling off them when they can “bless”.