Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1926-03-19 | Page 7 | Nature Generous in Gifts to Coleridge

; Nature Generous in I Gifts to Co'crUs ! I may say of him (Coleridge) here. ! that he is I ho only c-on I ever knew who answered to the idea of a uu:ii of ! genius, lie is t'." only p'-r.-on from whom I ever Icarni il any: hiiig. . . . He was the first poet 1 ever knew. ; iiis geidus at that lime had angelic v.dngs. and fed on m.-nma. lie talked on for e er; and you wished him to on forever; and you wi.-hid him to teem to come wlt'i labor and effort ; but as if borne on the gn-'s of genius, and as if the wings of his Ima g;r:a 1 ion lifted him from otf his fee. voic n.i'cd on tl.e ear like piecing or : n. and its sound alon- was the inn-.v inn-.v ( f ;'.....?. . . . Tn 1 is ). '-rip i yea ti, hi s,a-,v ike prog, of I ) i -can h: p;kt:''s and !;:'-1- in bright : i i,' er-i i.dii g siiee.-ieri. like the ! of .1 io,i; l;t with airy ' . : . j s d - 'i ck!;g and with tl.e vnlc j ,.f at tke top of tl.e Udder. J II. ' t.