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