Of one scrap of science I've evidence ocular.
 A heart of one chamber they call unilocular,
 And in a sharp frost, or when snow-flakes fall floccular,
 Your wise man of old wrapp'd himself in a Roquelaure,
 Which was called a Wrap-rascal when folks would be jocular.
 And shell-fish, the small, Periwinkle and Cockle are,
 So with them will I finish these verses trivocular.

Now first published from an MS.

17

CHOLERA CURED BEFORE-HAND

Or a premonition promulgated gratis for the use of the Useful Classes, specially those resident in St. Giles's, Saffron Hill, Bethnal Green, etc.; and likewise, inasmuch as the good man is merciful even to the beasts, for the benefit of the Bulls and Bears of the Stock Exchange.

Pains ventral, subventral,
 In stomach or entrail,
 Think no longer mere prefaces
 For grins, groans, and wry faces;
 But off to the doctor, fast as ye can crawl! 5
Yet far better 'twould be not to have them at all.
Now to 'scape inward aches,
 Eat no plums nor plum-cakes;
 Cry avaunt! new potato—
 And don't drink, like old Cato. 10
 Ah! beware of Dispipsy,
 And don't ye get tipsy!
 For tho' gin and whiskey
 May make you feel frisky,
 [986] They're but crimps to Dispipsy; 15
 And nose to tail, with this gipsy
 Comes, black as a porpus,
 The diabolus ipse,
 Call'd Cholery Morpus;
 Who with horns, hoofs, and tail, croaks for carrion to feed him, 20
 Tho' being a Devil, no one never has seed him!
Ah! then my dear honies,
 There's no cure for you
 For loves nor for monies:—
 You'll find it too true. 25
 Och! the hallabaloo!
 Och! och! how you'll wail,
 When the offal-fed vagrant
 Shall turn you as blue
 As the gas-light unfragrant, 30
 That gushes in jets from beneath his own tail;—
 'Till swift as the mail,
 He at last brings the cramps on,
 That will twist you like Samson.
 So without further blethring, 35
 Dear mudlarks! my brethren!
 Of all scents and degrees,
 (Yourselves and your shes)
 Forswear all cabal, lads,
 Wakes, unions, and rows, 40
 Hot dreams and cold salads,
 And don't pig in styes that would suffocate sows!
 Quit Cobbett's, O'Connell's and Beelzebub's banners,
 And whitewash at once bowels, rooms, hands, and manners!

July 26, 1832. First published in P. W. 1834. These lines were enclosed in a letter to J. H. Green, dated July 26, 1832, with the following introduction: 'Address premonitory to the Sovereign People, or the Cholera cured before-hand, promulgated gratis for the use of the useful classes, specially of those resident in St. Giles, Bethnal Green, Saffron Hill, etc., by their Majesties', i. e. the People's, loyal subject—Demophilus Mudlarkiades.'

LINENOTES:

[1-6]

om. Letter 1832.

[7-8]

To escape Belly ache Eat no plums nor plum cake Letter 1832.

[12]

And therefore don't get tipsy Letter 1832.

[16]

with this gipsy] of Dys Pipsy Letter 1832.

[22]

And oh! och my dear Honies Letter 1832.

[28]

offal-fed] horn-and-hoof'd Letter 1832.

[41]

dreams] drams Letter 1832.

[44]

And whitewash at once your Guts, Rooms and Manners Letter 1832.

After 44

Vivat Rex Popellio!
 Vivat Regina Plebs!
 Hurra! 3 times 3 thrice
 repeated Hurra!

Letter, 1832.

18

TO BABY BATES

You come from o'er the waters,
 From famed Columbia's land,
 And you have sons and daughters,
 And money at command.
But I live in an island,
 Great Britain is its name,
 With money none to buy land,
 The more it is the shame.
But we are all the children
 Of one great God of Love,
 Whose mercy like a mill-drain
 Runs over from above.
Lullaby, lullaby,
 Sugar-plums and cates,
 Close your little peeping eye,
 Bonny Baby B——s.

First collected 1893. 'Baby Bates' was the daughter of Joshua Bates, one of the donors of the Boston Library. Her father and mother passed a year (1828-1829) at Highgate, 'close to the house of Dr. and Mrs. Gillman.' See a letter to Mrs. Bates from S. T. C. dated Jan. 23, 1829. N. and Q. 4th Series, i. 469.

19

TO A CHILD[987:1]

Little Miss Fanny,
 So cubic and canny,
 With blue eyes and blue shoes—
 The Queen of the Blues!
 As darling a girl as there is in the world—
 If she'll laugh, skip and jump,
 And not be Miss Glump!

1834. First published in Athenæum, Jan. 28, 1888. First collected 1893.

FOOTNOTES:

[976:1] 'There is a female saint (St. Vuilgefortis), whom the Jesuit Sautel, in his Annus Sacer Poeticus, has celebrated for her beard—a mark of divine favour bestowed upon her for her prayers.' Omniana, 1812, ii. 54. 'Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixere! What! can nothing be one's own? This is the more vexatious, for at the age of eighteen I lost a legacy of fifty pounds for the following epigram on my godmother's beard, which she had the barbarity to revenge by striking me out of her will.' S. T. C.

[981:1] These lines are written on a fly-leaf of a copy of Five Bookes of the Church by Richard Field (folio 1635), under the inscription: 'Hannah Scollock, her book, February 10, 1787.' The volume was bequeathed to the poet's younger son, Derwent Coleridge, and is now in the possession of the Editor.

[983:1] Written for James Gillman Junr. as a School Exercise, for Merchant Taylors', c. 1822-3.

[984:1] Written in pencil on the blank leaf of a book of lectures delivered at the London University, in which the Hartleyan doctrine of association was assumed as a true basis.

[987:1] To Miss Fanny Boyce, afterwards Lady Wilmot Horton.

FRAGMENTS FROM A NOTEBOOK[988:1]

Circa 1796-98

1

Light cargoes waft of modulated Sound
 From viewless Hybla brought, when Melodies
 Like Birds of Paradise on wings, that aye
 Disport in wild variety of hues,
 Murmur around the honey-dropping flower.

First published in 1893. Compare The Eolian Harp (Aug. 1795), lines 20-5 (ante p. 101).

2

Broad-breasted rock—hanging cliff that glasses
 His rugged forehead in the calmy sea.[988:2]

First published in 1893. Compare Destiny of Nations (1796), lines 342, 343 (ante p. 143).

3

Where Cam his stealthy flowings most dissembles
 And scarce the Willow's watery shadow trembles.

First published in 1893. Compare line 1 of A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room, 'Where deep in mud Cam rolls his slumbrous stream' (ante, p. 35).

4

With secret hand heal the conjectur'd wound,
[or]
Guess at the wound, and heal with secret hand.

First published in 1893. The alternative line was first published in Lit. Rem., i. 279.

5

Outmalic'd Calumny's imposthum'd Tongue.

First published in 1893. A line from Verses to Horne Tooke, July 4, 1796, line 20 (ante, p. 151).

6

And write Impromptus
 Spurring their Pegasus to tortoise gallop.

First published in 1893.

7

Due to the Staggerers, that made drunk by Power
 Forget thirst's eager promise, and presume,
 Dark Dreamers! that the world forgets it too.

First published in Lit. Rem., 1836, i. 27.

LINENOTES:

[1]

Due] These L. R.

8

Perish warmth
 Unfaithful to its seeming!

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 279.

9

Old age, 'the shape and messenger of Death,'
 'His wither'd Fist still knocking at Death's door.'

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 279. Quoted from Sackville's Induction to a Mirrour for Magistrates, stanza 48:

'His wither'd fist stil knocking at deathes dore,
 Tumbling and driveling as he drawes his breth;
 For briefe, the shape and messenger of death.'

10

God no distance knows,
 All of the whole possessing!

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 279. Compare Religious Musings, ll. 156-7.

11

Wherefore art thou come? doth not the Creator of all things know all things? And if thou art come to seek him, know that where thou wast, there he was.

First published in 1893. Compare the Wanderings of Cain.

12

And cauldrons the scoop'd earth, a boiling sea.

First published in 1893.

13

Rush on my ear, a cataract of sound.

First published in 1893.

14

The guilty pomp, consuming while it flares.

First published in 1893.

15

My heart seraglios a whole host of Joys.

First published in 1893.

16

And Pity's sigh shall answer thy tale of Anguish
 Like the faint echo of a distant valley.

First published in Notizbuch, 1896, p. 350.

17

A DUNGEON

In darkness I remain'd—the neighb'ring clock
 Told me that now the rising sun shone lovely
 On my garden.

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 279. Compare Osorio, Act I, lines 219-21 (ante, p. 528), and Remorse, Act I, Scene ii, lines 218-20 (ante, p. 830).

LINENOTES:

[2]

sun at dawn L. R.

18

The Sun (for now his orb 'gan slowly sink)
 Shot half his rays aslant the heath whose flowers
 Purpled the mountain's broad and level top;
 Rich was his bed of clouds, and wide beneath
 Expecting Ocean smiled with dimpled face.

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278. Compare This Lime-Tree Bower (1797), lines 32-7 (ante, pp. 179, 180).

19

Leanness, disquietude, and secret Pangs.

First published in Notizbuch, p. 351.

20

Smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin Ice.

First published in Notizbuch, p. 355.

21

Wisdom, Mother of retired Thought.

First published in 1893.

22

Nature wrote Rascal on his face,
 By chalcographic art!

First published in 1893.

23

In this world we dwell among the tombs
 And touch the pollutions of the Dead.

First published in 1893. Compare Destiny of Nations, ll. 177-8 (ante, p. 137).

24

The mild despairing of a Heart resigned.

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278.

25

Such fierce vivacity as fires the eye
 Of Genius fancy-craz'd.

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278. Compare Destiny of Nations, ll. 257, 258 (ante, p. 139).

26

——like a mighty Giantess
 Seiz'd in sore travail and prodigious birth
 Sick Nature struggled: long and strange her pangs;
 Her groans were horrible, but O! most fair
 The Twins she bore—Equality and Peace!

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278. Compare concluding lines of the second strophe of Ode to the Departing Year, 4o, 1796.

27

Discontent
 Mild as an infant low-plaining in its sleep.

First published in 1893.

28

——terrible and loud,
 As the strong Voice that from the Thunder-cloud
 Speaks to the startled Midnight.

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278.

29

The swallows
 Interweaving there, mid the pair'd sea-mews
 At distance wildly-wailing!

First published in 1893.

30

The Brook runs over sea-weeds.
 Sabbath day—from the Miller's merry wheel
 The water-drops dripp'd leisurely.

First published in 1893. It is possible the Fragments were some of the 'studies' for The Brook. See Biog. Lit., Cap. X, ed. 1907, i. 129.

31

On the broad mountain-top
 The neighing wild-colt races with the wind
 O'er fern and heath-flowers.

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278.

32

A long deep lane
 So overshadow'd, it might seem one bower—
 The damp clay-banks were furr'd with mouldy moss.

First published in 1893.

33

Broad-breasted Pollards, with broad-branching heads.

First published in 1893.

34

'Twas sweet to know it only possible—
 Some wishes cross'd my mind and dimly cheer'd it—
 And one or two poor melancholy Pleasures—
 In these, the pale unwarming light of Hope
 Silv'ring their flimsy wing, flew silent by,
 Moths in the Moonlight.

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 277, 278.

LINENOTES:

[4]

In these] Each in L. R.

[5]

their] its L. R.

35

Behind the thin
 Grey cloud that cover'd but not hid the sky
 The round full moon look'd small.

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 277. Compare Christabel, ll. 16, 17 (ante, p. 216).

36

The subtle snow
 In every breeze rose curling from the Grove
 Like pillars of cottage smoke.

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278.

LINENOTES:

The Subtle snow in every passing breeze
 Rose curling from the grove like shafts of smoke.

L. R.

37

The sunshine lies on the cottage-wall,
 A-shining thro' the snow.

First published in 1893.

38

A maniac in the woods—She crosses heedlessly the woodman's path—scourg'd by rebounding boughs.

First published in 1893.

Compare this with discarded stanza in 'Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladié' as printed in the Morning Post, Dec. 21, 1799 (vide ante, p. 333).

And how he cross'd the woodman's paths,
 Thro' briars and swampy mosses beat;
 How boughs rebounding scourg'd his limbs,
 And low stubs gor'd his feet.

Note by J. D. Campbell, P. W., 1893, p. 456.

39

HYMNS—MOON

In a cave in the mountains of Cashmeer, an image of ice, which makes its appearance thus: Two days before the new moon there appears a bubble of ice, which increases in size every day till the fifteenth day, at which it is an ell or more in height;—then, as the moon decreases the Image does also till it vanishes. Mem. Read the whole 107th page of Maurice's Indostan.

First published in 1893. 'Hymns to the Sun, the Moon, and the Elements' are included in a list of projected works enumerated in the Gutch Notebook. The 'caves of ice' in Kubla Khan may have been a reminiscence of the 107th page of Maurice's Hindostan.

40

The tongue can't speak when the mouth is cramm'd with earth—
 A little mould fills up most eloquent mouths,
 And a square stone with a few pious texts
 Cut neatly on it, keeps the mould down tight.

First published in 1893. Compare Osorio, Act III, lines 259-62 (ante, p. 560).

41

And with my whole heart sing the stately song,
 Loving the God that made me.

First published in 1893. Compare Fears in Solitude, ll. 196-7 (ante, p. 263).

42

God's Image, Sister of the Cherubim!

First published in 1893. Compare the last line of The Ode to the Departing Year (ante, p. 168).

43

And re-implace God's Image in the Soul.

First published in 1893.

44

And arrows steeled with wrath.

First published in 1893.

45

Lov'd the same Love, and hated the same hate,
 Breath'd in his soul! etc. etc.

First published in 1893.

46

O man! thou half-dead Angel!

First published in 1893.

47

Thy stern and sullen eye, and thy dark brow
 Chill me, like dew-damps of th' unwholesome Night.
 My Love, a timorous and tender flower,
 Closes beneath thy Touch, unkindly man!
 Breath'd on by gentle gales of Courtesy
 And cheer'd by sunshine of impassion'd look—
 Then opes its petals of no vulgar hues.

First published in 1893. See Remorse, Act I, Sc. ii, ll. 81-4 (ante, p. 826). Compare Osorio, Act. I, ll. 80-3 (ante, p. 522).

48

With skill that never Alchemist yet told,
 Made drossy Lead as ductile as pure Gold.

First published in 1893.

49

Grant me a Patron, gracious Heaven! whene'er
 My unwash'd follies call for Penance drear:
 But when more hideous guilt this heart infests
 Instead of fiery coals upon my Pate,
 O let a titled Patron be my Fate;—
 That fierce Compendium of Ægyptian Pests!
 Right reverend Dean, right honourable Squire,
 Lord, Marquis, Earl, Duke, Prince,—or if aught higher,
 However proudly nicknamed, he shall be
 Anathema Maránatha to me!

First published, Lit. Rem., i. 281.

FOOTNOTES:

[988:1] One of the earliest of Coleridge's Notebooks, which fell into the hands of his old schoolfellow, John Mathew Gutch, the printer and proprietor of Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, was purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1868, and is now included in Add. MSS. as No. 27901. The fragments of verse contained in the notebook are included in P. W. 1893, pp. 453-8. The notebook as a whole was published by Professor A. Brandl in 1896 (S. T. Coleridge's Notizbuch aus den Jahren 1795-1798). Nineteen entries are included by H. N. Coleridge in Poems and Poetical Fragments published in Literary Remains, 1836, i. 277-80.

[988:2] An incorrect version of the lines was published in Lit. Rem., ii. 280.

FRAGMENTS[996:1]

1

O'er the raised earth the gales of evening sigh;
 And, see, a daisy peeps upon its slope!
 I wipe the dimming waters from mine eye;
 Even on the cold grave lights the Cherub Hope.[996:2]

? 1787. First published in Poems, 1852 (p. 379, Note 1). First collected 1893.

2

Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud
 With arching Wings, the sea-mew o'er my head
 Posts on, as bent on speed, now passaging
 Edges the stiffer Breeze, now, yielding, drifts,
 Now floats upon the air, and sends from far
 A wildly-wailing Note.

Now first published from an MS. Compare Fragment No. 29 of Fragments from a Notebook.

3

OVER MY COTTAGE

The Pleasures sport beneath the thatch;
 But Prudence sits upon the watch;
 Nor Dun nor Doctor lifts the latch!

1799. First published from an MS. in 1893. Suggested by Lessing's Sinngedicht No. 104.

4

In the lame and limping metre of a barbarous Latin poet—

Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse,
 Sit meum, amice, precor: quia certe sum mage pauper.
'Tis mine and it is likewise yours;
 But and if this will not do,
 Let it be mine, because that I
 Am the poorer of the Two!

Nov. 1, 1801. First published in the Preface to Christabel, 1816. First collected 1893.

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