Could I but harmonise one kindly thought
Hartley Coleridge
1796 to 1849
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Could I but harmonise one kindly thought,
Fix one image in a snatch of song,
Which maids might as they tripped along;
Or could I ease the heart, o’erfraught
With passionate truths for which the mind
Lacks form or utterance, with a single line;
Might lovers woo in phrase of mine,
I should not that I have lived for nought;
The world were to forget my name,
Could I bequeath a few words
Like his, the bard who never dreamed of fame,
Whose rhymes preserve from harm the pious birds;
Or his, that dim full many a star-bright eye
With woe Barbara Allen’s cruelty.
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