How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day! ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, p.484
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