When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt (fragment)

When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt--
A Flight of Hopes for ever on the wing
But made Tranquillity a conscious Thing--
And wheeling round and round in sportive coil
Fann'd the calm air upon the brow of Toil--

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Romantic poet and philosopher, co-author of Lyrical Ballads, known for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

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