Advanced reader . s. Composure strewed and allayedall the throbbings of my bosom ; the coolness of freshestmorning breathed around ; the heavens seemed to open aboveme; while the beautiful cheek of my deliverer rested on my 95 head. I would now have looked for those others ; but, know-ing my intention by my gesture, he said consolatorily,— Sleep is on his way to the Earth, where many are callinghim ; but it is not to them he hastens, for every call onlymakes him fly further off. Sedately and gravely as he looks, 100 he is nearly as capricious and volatile as the more arrogantand ferocious one.
Advanced reader . s. Composure strewed and allayedall the throbbings of my bosom ; the coolness of freshestmorning breathed around ; the heavens seemed to open aboveme; while the beautiful cheek of my deliverer rested on my 95 head. I would now have looked for those others ; but, know-ing my intention by my gesture, he said consolatorily,— Sleep is on his way to the Earth, where many are callinghim ; but it is not to them he hastens, for every call onlymakes him fly further off. Sedately and gravely as he looks, 100 he is nearly as capricious and volatile as the more arrogantand ferocious one. And Love, said I, whither is he departed ? If not toolate, I would propitiate and appease him. He who cannot follow me, he who cannot overtake and 105 pass me, said the Genius, is unworthy of the name, themost glorious in earth or heaven. Look up ! Love is yonder,and ready to receive thee. I looked; the earth was under me ; I saw only the clearblue sky, and something brighter above it. — Walter Savage COLERIDGE. Biographical.—Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born at Ottery St. Mary,in Devonshire, October 21st, 1772. When a boy his appetite for reading wasextraordinary, but, even in this, his peculiar disposition showed itself, forhis reading was of a desultory character. From 1791 to 1793 he attendedJesus College, Cambridge, winning distinction in Classics, but leaving 5without a degree. He began an unsettled and irregular life by enlisting ina dragoon regiment, but was soon afterwards bought off by his first an ardent Republican, he indulged high hopes of what the FrenchRevolution was going to do for mankind. Later in life, however, frombeing a Radical and a Unitarian, he became a Royalist and a Church- 10man. Without ambition, and with no set purpose before him, he wasalways indulging in visions of what he was going to do—from foundingideal republics with Southey to planning an extensive series of the limited quantity and the incomplete cha
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