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"Tis his to struggle with that perilous age

Which claims for manhood's vice the privilege

Of boyhood;—when young Dionysus seems

All glorious as he burst upon the east,

A jocund and a welcome conqueror;

And Aphrodite, sweet as from the sea

She rose and floated in her pearly shell,

A laughing girl;—when lawless will erects

Honour's gay temple on the mount of God,

And meek obedience bears the coward's brand;

While Satan, in celestial panoply,

With Sin, his lady, smiling by his side,

Defies all heaven to arms!"

Hartley Coleridge's Poems, Vol. II., p. 202.