No More Learning

or aspiration? or resolve? ) 125
Absorb'd; yet hanging still upon the Sound--
And when I rose, I found myself in Prayer.


S. T. COLERIDGE.

'Jany'. 1807.


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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT

[Footnote A: Different reading on same MS. :

'To one cast forth, whose Hope had seem'd to die. '

Ed. ]


[Footnote B: Compare, as an illustrative note, the descriptive passage
in Satyrane's first Letter in 'Biographia Literaria', beginning, "A
beautiful white cloud of foam," etc. --S. T. C.
]


[Footnote C: Different reading on same MS. , "'my'. "--Ed. ]


[Footnote D: Different reading on same MS. , "'and'. "--Ed. ]



In a MS. copy of 'Dejection, An Ode', transcribed for Sir George
Beaumont on the 4th of April 1802--and sent to him, when living with
Lord Lowther at Lowther Hall--there is evidence that the poem was
originally addressed to Wordsworth.

The following lines in this copy can be compared with those finally
adopted:

'O dearest William! in this heartless mood,
To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd
All this long eve so balmy and serene
Have I been gazing on the western sky,'

. . .

'O William, we _receive_ but what we _give_:
And in our life alone does Nature live. '

. . .