{"id":3143,"date":"2010-10-21T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2010-10-22T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T23:14:16","slug":"thou-shalt-wander-like-a-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3143","title":{"rendered":"Thou shalt wander like a breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/UmbriaL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3144\" title=\"UmbriaL\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/UmbriaL.jpg\" alt=\"UmbriaL\" width=\"450\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/UmbriaL.jpg 750w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/UmbriaL-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), and so I post this excerpt from one of his poems, <em>Frost at Midnight<\/em>. Coleridge\u2019s better-known works include the innovative yet strange (one might even say alarming) poems <em>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/em> and <em>Kubla Khan<\/em>, but I chose one that reveals another side of this unhappy, troubled, brilliant man: a tender-hearted and optimistic poem written while caring for his new infant son Hartley. Clearly he anticipates a loftier path for Hartley than the one he has followed himself.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying it is a detail from a larger painting.<\/p>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Fill up the interspersed vacancies<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">And momentary pauses of the thought!<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">My babe so beautiful! it thrills my heart<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">With tender gladness, thus to look at thee,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">And think that thou shall learn far other lore,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">And in far other scenes! For I was reared<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">In the great city, pent \u2018mid cloisters dim,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars.<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Of that eternal language, which thy God<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Utters, who from eternity doth teach<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Himself in all, and all things in himself.<\/span><\/address>\n<p><em>\u2014Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'ITC Galliard', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), and so I post this excerpt from one of his poems, Frost at Midnight. 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