S. T. Coleridge.
The original poem, by Coleridge, is here printed in full, with a very clever parody, which will be better appreciated after comparison with the original. The little Volume of Miscellaneous Poems from which the parody is taken, is now very scarce, although only published as recently as 1880. The author has gone to Australia, taking with him all the unsold copies of his book.
The Power of Science.
“All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,”
Are but the legacies of apes,
With interest on the same,
How oft in studious hours do I
Recall those moments, gone too soon,
When midway in the hall I stood,