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As Some Vast Tropic Tree, Itself A Wood

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Title:     As Some Vast Tropic Tree, Itself A Wood
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood,
That crests its head with clouds, beneath the flood
Feeds its deep roots, and with the bulging flank
Of its wide base controls the fronting bank--
(By the slant current's pressure scoop'd away
The fronting bank becomes a foam-piled bay)
High in the Fork the uncouth Idol knits
His channel'd brow; low murmurs stir by fits
And dark below the horrid Faquir sits--
An Horror from its broad Head's branching wreath
Broods o'er the rude Idolatry beneath--

1806-7. Now first published from an MS.






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