Coleridge, farewell! That great and grave transition Which may not Priest or King or Conqueror spare, And yet a Babe can bear, Has come to thee. Through life a goodly vision Was thine; and time it was thy rest to take. Soft be the sound ordained thy sleep to break-- When thou art waking, wake me, for thy Master's sake![151] FOOTNOTES: [147] [25th July 1834.] [148] [For the correct dates of the Lectures see p. 167 of this volume.] [149] [Chapter IV.] [150] Here seems an allusion to an anti-utilitarian maxim of Bacon's, which is very expressive of my Father's turn of mind:--Et tamen quemadmodum luci magnam habemus gratiam, quod per eam vias inire, artes, exercere, legere, nos invicem dignoscere possimus, et nihilominus _ipsa visio lucis res praestantior est et pulchrior, quam multiplex ejus usus; ita certe ipsa contemplatio rerum, prout sunt, sine superstitione aut impostura, errore aut confusione, in se ipsa magis digna est, quam universus inventorum fructus_. Novum Organum, Part of Aph. CXXIX. [151] From a volume containing _The Search after Proserpine_, _Recollections of Greece_ and other Poems by Aubrey de Vere, author of _The Fall of Rora_. APPENDIX AND ADDITIONAL NOTES APPENDIX LETTERS CONTAINED IN THIS WORK DRAWN FROM JOSEPH COTTLE'S _EARLY RECOLLECTIONS_ (1837), AND HIS _REMINISCENCES_ (1847) _E. R._ _REM._ LETTER 15 Vol. i, p. 150 p. 74 " 16 " 184 97 " 17 " 164 84 " 18 " 165 85 " 19 " 166 85 " 20 " 169 87 " 21 " 172 90 " 22 " 171 88 " 23 " 140 67 " 24 " 137 65 " 25 " 141 68 " 30 " 144 70 " 31 " 145 70 " 32 " 159 81 " 38 " 173 90 " 41 " 209 115 " 48 " 197 107 " 49 " 229, 188 130, 100 " 50 " 230 130 " 51 " 219 122 " 52 " 213 118 " 53 " 224 126 " 54 " 232 132 " 55 " 211 117 " 56 " 190 102 " 57 " 239 136