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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Melancholy. A Fragment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Melancholy. A Fragment.
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Stretched on a mouldered Abbey`s broadest wall,   Where ruining ivies propped the ruins steep-- Her folded arms wrapping her tattered pall,   Had Melancholy mused herself to sleep.     The fern was pressed beneath her hair,     The dark green adder`s tongue was there; And still as past the flagging sea-gale weak, The long lank leaf bowed fluttering o`er her cheek. That pallid cheek was flushed: her eager look   Beamed eloquent in slumber!  Inly wrought, Imperfect sounds her moving lips forsook,   And her bent forehead worked with troubled thought.     Strange was the dream-----
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