What Is Life?

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Title:     What Is Life?
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

Resembles life what once was deem'd of light,
Too ample in itself for human sight?
An absolute self--an element ungrounded--
All that we see, all colours of all shade
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?

1805.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: What Is Life?

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