And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1840). The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume, p.223
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