So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted do…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). Letters, Conversations and Recollections, p.144
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So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). Letters, Conversations and Recollections, p.144

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