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Coleridge, David Hartley - See, the blue smoke as a voiceless prayer
Identifier
006364
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Bricks without Mortar – The Selected Poems of Hartley Coleridge
See, the blue smoke as a voiceless prayer
Sole witness of a secret sacrifice
Unfolds its tardy wreaths and multiplies
Its soft chameleon breathings in the rare
Capacious ether – so it fades away,
And nought is seen beneath the pendant blue,
The undistinguishable waste of day.
So have I dreamed – oh, may the dream be true –
That praying souls are purged from mortal hue
And grow as pure as He to whom they pray
The source of the experience
Coleridge, David HartleyConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
PrayerSymbols
SmokeScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Communing with natureHome schooling
Inherited genes
Reducing desires
Reducing threats
Suppressing memory