William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.
Song: Hear, sweet spirit, hear the spellSamuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)
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Lest a blacker charm compel!
So shall the midnight breezes swell
With thy deep long-lingering knell.
In a Chapel on the shore,
Shall the Chaunters sad and saintly,
Yellow tapers burning faintly,
Doleful Masses chaunt for thee,
Miserere Domine!
On the quiet moonlight sea:
The boatmen rest their oars and say,
Miserere Domine!