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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

including Poems and Versions of Poems now Published for the First Time: Edited with Textual and Bibliographical Notes by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

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959

24 TO MR. PYE

[_]

On his Carmen Seculare (a title which has by various persons who have heard it, been thus translated, ‘A Poem an age long’).

Your Poem must eternal be,
Eternal! it can't fail,
For 'tis incomprehensible,
And without head or tail!