The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1

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Now! It is gone. Our brief hours travel post, Each with its thought or deed, its Why or How: But know, each parting hour gives up a ghost To dwell within thee an eternal Now!

1830

Quae linquam, aut nihil, aut nihili, aut vix sunt mea; Do Morti; reddo caetera, Christe! tibi. [sordes.

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