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What Is Life?

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What is Life?
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1805, published 1829

65385What is Life?Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 
   Resembles Life what once was held of Light,
    Too ample in itself for human sight ?
An absolute Self--an element ungrounded--
All, that we see, all colours of all shade
         By encroach of darkness made ?--
Is very life by consciousness unbounded ?
And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
A war-embrace of wrestling Life and Death ?

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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