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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
Critic
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Ottery St Mary
Devon
S. T. Coleridge
Loneliness
Seemed
Lonely
Albatross
Twas
Scarce

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