...1.138), just as for the Mariner love was the condition of the redemptive vision of the sea snakes: 'A spring of love gushed from my heart, / And I blessed them unaware' (1.284). And as we shall see in the following chapter, there is in Coleridge's major neoplatonic sources,...

...Worldly ambitions and cares died in the light of that glorious truth. One long song of love and peace. A spring of love gushed from my heart And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me. And I blessed them unaware.2 It was a love that transcended time...

...semiotic potentiality: "Sweet sounds rose slowly thro' their mouths / And from their bodies pass'd. / Around, around, flew each sweet sound, / Then darted to the sun: / Slowly the sounds came back again / Now mix'd, now one by one" (329-55). This music echoes Nature's one life, a "sweet...