What Is Life?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     Resembles Life what once was held of Light,
     Too ample in itself for human sight ?
An absolute Self--an element ungrounded--
All, that we see, all colours of all shade
     [Image]By encroach of darkness made ?--
Is very life by consciousness unbounded ?
And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
A war-embrace of wrestling Life and Death ?

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