Letter to Hall Caine, 27 July 1880 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Courtesy of the Manx Museum. Letter to Hall Caine, 27 July 1880 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1880 July 27 letter Hall Caine DGR Manx Museum Commentary
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This letter contains a manuscript copy of DGR's sonnet “Samuel Taylor Coleridge” . Caine excerpted from this letter in various places in his book on DGR. Doughty and Wahl did not know the existence of the manuscript in the Manx Museum.

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Caine, <hi rend="i">Recollections</hi> 165-66.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge His Soul fared forth (as from the deep home-grove The father-songster plies the hourlong quest) To feed his soul-brood hungering in the nest; But his warm Heart, the mother-bird, above Their callow fledgling progeny still hove With tented roof of wings and fostering breast Till the Soul fed the soul-brood. Richly blest From Heaven their growth, whose food was Human Love. Yet ah! Like desert pools that show the stars Once in long leagues,—even such the scarce-snatched hours Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers:— Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars! Five years, from seventy saved! Yet kindling skies Own them, a beacon to our centuries.